Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.”

— Will Raywood

“You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.”

— Toni Sorenson

“The great actors always play themselves.”

— Scott Farris

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”

— Simona Panova

“Some situations recognize me as a good actor though I want to be true to everyone!”

— Nelson Jack

“Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”

— Stewart Stafford

“This will sound ridiculous, I guess, but my life had started to feel so stagnant, like it was atrophied. Everything shrunk down to the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“We’re only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we’re afraid to show people who we really are. We’re…

— M.L. Rio

“The human condition’s like an audience whose members are always surprised when they’re required to become actors.”

— Louis Armand

“We’re actors in our own lives, pretending to be who we want people to think we are”

— Simone Elkeles

“Feeling. That is what it is about. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential.”

— Matt Haig

“Then, because we know that this passion will at some point blind them to their movie’s inevitable problems, we offer them the counsel of…

— Ed Catmull