Conscious Quote by Mark Rylance

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are…

— Mike Nichols

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They…

— Amanda Hale

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

— Dominic Cooper

A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an…

— Nicholas Gonzalez

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

— Shailene Woodley

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

— Debra Winger

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It's them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their…

— Danai Gurira

There are plenty of other actors who are wonderful that just don't work in a way that I work, or our methods aren't necessarily…

— Joe Mantello

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they…

— Eric Balfour

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.

— Frank Vincent

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

— Martin Sheen