Actors Quote by Antonin Artaud Download Open image “The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.” — Antonin Artaud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Crude Instinct Theatre Vague
As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual. — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive… — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries… — David Zayas Copy Share Image
If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some directors are open to ideas, and some are rigid. And, some actors are into method acting, and some, instinctive. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries… — David Zayas Copy Share Image
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
