“I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.” FeelsKindDoneActorsActingStageHappeningsDearEightGladIslandsRidingHanging OnCyclonesDear LifeConey Island Author:Fred Melamed
“Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.” IfsWorldWantActingAudienceListeningHappeningsEngagedProcessing Author:Richard Gere
“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.” PeopleRealMomentsActorsActingAudienceImagineHappeningsFunctionReal Things Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Kissing on screen is just, funny enough you're just acting so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am. I'm actually always coming away from those things going like, 'I wonder how I kissed just now.' Because I have no idea! I'm just thinking about what's happening.” ThinkingIdeasEnoughActingWonderKissingHappeningsScreensNo IdeaDistracted Author:Dylan O'Brien
“Just keep acting is my plan, I just want to keep going for as long as I can. I've had a fantastic time on Potter, I will be very sad to leave it because every time I look back on one of these films, every scene I watch will be forever linked to a memory of what happened that day or something that was happening around that time in my life.” WantLooksLongI CanFilmMemoriesActingWatchesForeverPlansHappenedSceneHappeningsFantasticKeep GoingLinkedPottersVery Sad Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.” WantWritingFirstsBelievePlayHappensActorsStuffActingAudienceDoorsSceneDirectorsHappeningsFirst TimePlaygroundsGood Directors Author:Martin Landau
“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.” IfsTryingRealityFilmSoundActingAirStageFrontsGoes OnHappeningsTricksFishing Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsHelpingSeemsCertainActingHappeningsTechnique Author:Richard Gere
“When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.” DifferentPlayYoungOpportunityParentActingClassReadyGrewLessonsGrew UpSingingHappeningsActressesSingersDifferent Things Author:Naturi Naughton
“What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.” KnowsFeelsTwoActorsStrongEnjoyActingKnow HowListeningRight NowSceneHappeningsConnectionsAffectedStrong Connection Author:Joel Kinnaman
“You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.” WritingRealRememberActorsActingFeetDirectorsHappeningsActing OutStaging Author:Mike Birbiglia
“If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.” IfsEndsActorsActingClassFrontsMastersHappeningsThe End Of The Day Author:Luke Evans
“That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are acting for themselves as it happened with the Sons of Liberty which spread throughout the colonies. That was a very important awakening in this country.” PeopleImportantCountryFactsPartyActingLibertyHappenedSonRevolutionHappeningsSpreadAwakeningTeaColumnsTea PartyColonyAmerican Revolution Author:Nat Hentoff
“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.” WayNeedsLooksEnoughAsksActingQuietHappeningsContributingPredicamentsFreaking Out Author:Ram Dass