Acting Quotes

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Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself… — Marian Seldes
You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not… — Richard P. Feynman
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps… — Wilfred Trotter
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must… — Nhat Hanh
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. — Shirley Booth
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they… — Michael Shurtleff
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse… — Michael Chekhov
When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the… — Viola Spolin
When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals… — Cedric Hardwicke
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize… — Alec Guinness
I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication...Not easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You… — Jerry Seinfeld
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone… — Nancy Kerrigan
What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place,… — Ray Bolger
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive. — Craig McDonald
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. — Rosalind Russell
Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act! — Craig McDonald
Find in yourself those human things which are universal. — Sanford Meisner
An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease. — Michael Chekhov
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words. — Sanford Meisner
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. — Michael Shurtleff
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. — Jack Lemmon
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential. — Michael Shurtleff
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active. — Michael Shurtleff
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it. — Michael Shurtleff

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