“In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.” ArtSuccessActorsWaitingCareersCreativeSpecialBuddhismDisciplineDrawsTablesActressesCreative ArtWaiting Tables Author:Frederick Lenz
“Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.” ArtActorsActingEmotionalDisciplineAbsurdUnfortunateDetachmentAbandonmentVogueBurstingManiacsSpillingVomitingContainmentWheezing Book:The lonely life: an autobiography Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.” NeedsActorsSacrificeDisciplineInstinctDedication Author:Matt Smith
“Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.” StillsWarEnoughActorsBitsAbilityLevelsDisciplineCombinationGreat Ones Author:Robin Williams
“Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.” MeanActorsActingDisciplineSensitivity Author:Neil Diamond
“You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be and you let them go. Some actors like to be nudged just a little bit. Some actors don't mind line readings.” IfsWayNeedsMindChildrenLittlesHandsMotherReadingActorsBitsLinesDisciplineLittle BitHand Holding Author:Rob Reiner
“In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.” WellsFilmArtistOrderActorsDisciplineTheaterTackling Author:Val Kilmer
“In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.” MenGivingCharacterPassionActorsEffortAttitudeFateTaughtDisciplineShapesDelightAbsurdDefinedFrontiersDiligenceAppearingConquerorTaught UsLucidityDoggedness Author:Albert Camus
“I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake.” ThinkingKnowsWantLittlesImportantSometimesActorsDisciplineBeatsStakesWhatever It Takes Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.” WritingTryingActorsActingRolesDisciplineI RealizedBombs Author:Patton Oswalt
“I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.” IfsWorldLittlesWould BeWantedYoungActorsStarsBitsActingClassFireFocusRocksDisciplineMetsLittle BitBe GoodCoachesSingersHungrySecondsRock N RollVehicleUp And DownAcresYoung ActorsGood Coaches Author:Iggy Pop
“I've talked a lot about the discipline and high, high skills of the British actors as seen from my Danish point of view. But I also have to say that Peter is unusually intelligent, humble and a good friend to everyone.” ActorsViewsDisciplineSkillsIntelligentHumbleBritishPoint Of ViewPeterGood FriendDanish Author:Lone Scherfig
“Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having discipline, but not prescribing what the performance was supposed to be. Neither of them are really directing their actors into a performance.” ActorsProcessFocusDisciplineCreatingUniquePerformancesMoodSupposed To BeNaturalistIntentionalityPrescribing Author:Sam Pressman
“With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.” KnowsPersonsStoriesActorsDisciplineCleanWipeSlate Author:Luke Evans
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.” KnowsEnoughDreamKidsWantedActorsActingLaughingTakenStupidSeriousDisciplineComicRealisingDaniel Day Lewis Author:Chris O'Dowd