Actors Quote by James Lipton

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

— Paul Henreid

“Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there…

— Erica Goros

It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.

— Anjelica Huston

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

— William Mapother

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

— Gene Tierney

When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not…

— Mark Margolis

I find it very important to keep learning because, as an actor, you get exhausted. You need more emotion, more experience... you need something…

— Radhika Apte

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

— Alan Bates

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that…

— Richard Matheson

I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how…

— Alia Shawkat

I think an actor should portray all kinds of emotions in films.

— Biju Menon