“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.” TryingYearsKindChildrenFeelingsMightKidsAgeActorsGrowsGrowing UpAdultsHanging OutPresentationPoiseChild Actors Author:Alessandro Nivola
“I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.” PeopleKnowsWayKindFeelingsCareActorsRealizingAudienceKnow HowWonderfulVery Deep Author:Michael J. Fox
“I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.” FeelingsFallActorsProcessStriveAuthenticity Author:Juliet Stevenson
“If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.” IfsFeelsFeelingsActorsWorstStageConvincedProfessionAwfulUncomfortableAbyssDisgrace Author:Stephen Dillane
“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.” KnowsMayFeelingsActorsInterestLosesKnow HowAchieveEffectsFineLaborWorkersAccidentsGenuineOccasionsRepeatsSuspectsGesturesNot InterestedAgain And AgainAccentsOutburstRare Occasion Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.” MenSelfHelpingFeelingsLastsSpiritGirlActorsGivenWishBoysMissingHe ManExpressionListeningMen And WomenSeatsGesturesFellowshipGalleryBoy And Girl Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.” FeelsMindPersonsCharacterFeelingsAbleFilmActorsHonestStrangeEasierBeing HonestWhere You AreStrange Things Author:Marketa Irglova
“I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.” KnowsFeelingsActorsComfortableAmbivalentAmbivalent Feelings Author:Don Johnson
“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.” LooksIdeasFeelingsChoicesActorsActingMaterialsPlaywright Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?".” TryingFeelingsActorsLove IsKeep Trying Author:Shiri Appleby
“There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.” FeelsFeelingsActorsTerribleDirectorsSkillsUncomfortable Author:Ben Kingsley
“An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.” WayWantYearsMayIdeasPlayFeelingsNightThreeActorsCan DoEmotionMusicianTechniqueDamnThree YearsEvery NightBroadway Author:Richard Estes
“Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.” ThinkingKnowsFeelingsActorsLevelsActingJudgingCommunicationConcerned Author:Meryl Streep
“Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.” HumansUseFeelingsHandsEyeActorsEmotionalDevelopmentIntellectualResearchComplexesDiscussionMotiveHis EyesAccomplishedUsualTopicsEquipmentForbiddenPsychoanalysisResearchersIdentificationSuppressionMicroscopesBiologistCripplesWeighingIntellectual DevelopmentEmotional Development Author:Lloyd deMause
“With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.” FeelsTryingFeelingsActorsLike YouProjects Author:Kristen Stewart
“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.” IfsThinkingTryingMomentsUseFeelingsBodyPainActorsEmotionGoneInvolvedAnxietyToolsAccessYour BodySevere Author:Joel Kinnaman
“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.” IfsThinkingDoeDoneCharacterFeelingsHomeReadingActorsFunHoursRoomsMorningDesignListeningWalkingExerciseSkillsInternalsHotelSomething NewListening To MusicGigsWheatSeparatingHotel Rooms Author:Colin Farrell
“The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.” IfsMatterFactsHelpingFeelingsActorsTeacherInvolvedDoctorsLawyerLiking SomeoneReceptionists Author:Jessica Szohr
“I like to see people put themselves into films, which is part of the reason why I love Woody Allen films so much - I believe his actors' work. I have a feeling that many actors in his films are similar to their characters, and I like that.” PeopleBelieveReasonCharacterFeelingsFilmActorsI BelieveReason WhyWoodyWoody Allen Film Author:Dito Montiel