“... 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
“There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.” FirstsHappensActorsListeningReactingFreshness Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“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
“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.” EyeActorsActingListeningRespondingThings I Love Author:Allison Janney
“For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.” ChildrenMatterAbleActorsListeningScaredReactingNew PlacesBeing ScaredChild Actors Author:Jena Malone
“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.” PersonsImportantRealMomentsActorsActingKeysListeningReal LifeListeners Author:Rainn Wilson
“Improvisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and proactive for what's going on. Someone gives you something - a lot of actors are a little shut off, so they're just doing, "This is my character, these are my lines, I'm going to just send it to you then you send whatever you're sending." Improvisation teaches you to really be listening.” GivingLittlesMomentsCharacterActorsLinesTeachListeningImprovisationProactive Author:John C. Reilly
“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.” IfsRealProblemCoursesActorsAsksRealizingAbilityActingTalkingFrontsListeningHarderCamerasHardestAssistantsNot TalkingRetarded Author:Brett Ratner
“Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.” PeopleThinkingJobsActorsEasyListeningCommunicateStoryteller Author:Sadie Calvano
“I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else.” KnowsNeedsSaidRememberFightingActorsSkyLike YouListeningMadExcitedOctoberYelling Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.” WayPersonsImportantHappensNextActorsCausesFiguresListeningScene Author:Alan Alda
“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
“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.” PeopleTwoDifferentMomentsMovingSongActorsActingTalkingListeningDependsMovedMoodTwo ThingsThat MomentNot TalkingListening To Others Author:Janet Jackson
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.” IfsWayLittlesI CanReasonFactsActorsRoomsFocusFrontsListeningSittingNotesScriptsPhonesSurroundingsDistracted Author:Adam Reed
“It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because that's what happens when you take the time - or have the time - to really think about the material, but that only accounts for about 60% of what happens on the day. When you're in the moment, you throw it all away. Well, you don't throw it all away, but it's in you now, and everything is reactionary in that moment and you have to be honest and present and listening.” ThinkingWellsMomentsCharacterHappensChoicesActorsUnderstandingHonestMaterialsListeningResearchAccountsObviousBeing HonestThat MomentReactionariesMaking ChoicesPreps Author:Logan Lerman
“To the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all of our institutions are full of malevolent actors - if that's the storyline that's being put out there by whatever party is out of power, then when a foreign government introduces that same argument with facts that are made up, voters who have been listening to that stuff for years, who have been getting that stuff every day from talk radio or other venues, they're going to believe it.” IfsYearsBelieveHas BeensMadeReasonFactsGovernmentPoliticalActorsStuffPartyListeningArgumentInstitutionsRadioDialogueVotersIntroducingSuspicionPartisansVenuesStorylineTalk RadioPolitical Dialogue Author:Barack Obama
“As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.” GivingTryingPersonsActorsProduceListeningAlways Trying Author:Tatiana Maslany
“The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.” PersonsTwoThreeActorsLinesCuttingMastersListeningCamerasGreat ThingsRoofCurvesSoapSinglesSetupsLearning Curve Author:John C. McGinley
“My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.” KnowsNeedsGivingTryingActorsRealizingListeningApproachResponding Author:Christopher Nolan
“An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.” IfsGuyActorsTalkingListening Author:Marlon Brando