“The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.” MindPersonsActorsDealsActingEssenceMediums Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production
“For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.” ThinkingYearsImportantCharacterLife IsActorsFoundActingPersonalityHealthyEssenceMultipleInvitingBipolarMultiple Personalities Author:Sally Field
“In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantFirstsHeartWholeActorsLeftFunEnjoyImaginationSituationGoes OnEssenceTheatreRealisingAnimationMaking Up Author:Jim Parsons
“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.” ArtRealDesireActorsActingEmotionPleaseEssenceDramaticFacultyFeminineDefectsFacilityProvincesAssimilationArtifice Book:The Art of the Theatre Source: The Art of the Theatre
“The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.” ArtThreeActorsUnderstandingActingEssenceContemplatingPhases Author:Franz Grillparzer
“It's difficult because you can't generalise about these things. But in essence, you deal with children as simply as you deal with actors - you have to show a certain sort of respect. You deal with them lovingly and protect them, but if you protect them enough then they're open to engage with what you want to do with them.” IfsWantChildrenEnoughShowsCertainActorsDifficultDealsProtectEssenceWhat You Want Author:Michael Haneke
“I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.” FeelsFilmActorsEssenceIncrediblesHomelandShort FilmsJaguars Author:Shannyn Sossamon
“It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.” WayWritingLittlesPhilosophyStoriesActorsStuffActingTakenFocusEventsLessonsEssenceI've LearnedFilmmakingDistractedClicheGood WritingGood Acting Author:Ben Affleck
“When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're waiting and waiting and waiting, once you're actually on set engaging in the scene with another actor, time is of the essence.” PlayCharacterActorsGrowsWaitingTelevisionSceneEssenceEngaging Author:Aja Naomi King
“A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.” DoeFeelingsActorsPoetEssenceIndependentSupremeProseVersesAccentsGreat ActorsIndependent Women Author:Lee Strasberg
“I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.” PeopleInspirationalMotivationalWould BeActorsActingEssenceCuriousBe YouBest ActingTheatre Acting Author:Meryl Streep
“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.” InspirationalWholeMotivationalFunnyActorsSoundLinesForgetActingLike YouEssenceTheatreInstantDressingsDressing UpStrippingBest ActingActors And ActingActing From Actors Author:Glenda Jackson