Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.
If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
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