I don't personally look to my own life experiences for…

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. For me, that's some kind of bastardization…

— Christian Bale

Whenever you're fulfilling your dreams, your experiences will be your answers to the questions that others will ask you.

— Anonymous

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

— Richard Gere

'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.

— Steve Carr

There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place,…

— Michael J. Fox

My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure…

— Jessica Lange

If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look…

— Woody Allen

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene,…

— Tom Cruise

You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your…

— Gale Harold

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

— Bruce Campbell

Some jobs you do, they're just jobs. Others are life experiences.

— Mark Strong

What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something…

— Jaume Cabre

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

— Snoh Aalegra

Life is all about experiences and being able to work with good people is a blessing.

— Bhumika Chawla

“Adolescent youths cry out for us to help them contextualize their life experiences.”

— Michael Gurian