Element of surprise Quote by Geena Davis

In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play is. In…

— Seth Numrich

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching…

— Jonathan Groff

Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people.…

— Christopher Abbott

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts…

— Alan Rickman

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and…

— Sally Hawkins

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have…

— Carice van Houten

Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's…

— T.I

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing…

— Jesse Eisenberg

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the…

— Willem Dafoe

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing…

— Michael Cera

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

— Bernardo Bertolucci