Best listening & acting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”

“Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.”

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“Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“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.”

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Author:Richard Gere

“I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."”

“I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.”

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Author:Allison Janney

“Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.”

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Author:Reid Scott

“In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.”

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Author:Eugen Drewermann

“I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.”

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Author:Rainn Wilson

“Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”

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Author:Brett Ratner

“I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.”

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Author:Kirsten Dunst

“A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.”

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Author:Jason Scott

“Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.”

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Author:Mark McGrath

“Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.”

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Author:Pauline Oliveros

“Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“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.”

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Author:Joel Kinnaman

“I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.”

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Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.”

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Author:Janet Jackson

“Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.”

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Author:Phil Anselmo

“It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.”

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Author:Gary Cole

“The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.”

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Author:Taryn Manning

“I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.”

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Author:Lola Kirke

“We must all acknowledge our unconscious biases, and listen with less bias when women, and others who are marginalized, speak out. A lot of change is possible by just acknowledging unconscious bias - that exhaustively documented but unpleasant reality many would rather ignore - and listening with less bias and acting on what we then learn.”

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Author:Tara Moss

“I will do plays as long as they're interested in having me do them. It's the biggest opportunity to learn the most about how to act. Something I discover every time I'm doing one is how little I know about acting - how important the art of listening is, and how important it is to listen with your entire body. You can tell so much of a story with stillness, and a lot of that can be from really actively listening to your scene partner.”

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Author:Sarah Paulson

“The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more. It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.”

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Author:Gary Cole

“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

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