About yourself Quote by Alan Rickman

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

— Catherine Hicks

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

— Roberto Benigni

As an actor, you have to face the public all the time. It is a job that people fantasies, but it also creates prejudices;…

— Gong Yoo

I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them…

— Julianne Moore

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

— Gene Simmons

Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For…

— Elisabeth Moss

The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw…

— Charles Ludlam

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

— Robert Downey, Jr

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

— Christopher Reeve

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a…

— Rob James-Collier

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for…

— Hugh Jackman

I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part…

— Zoe Lister-Jones