Acting Quote by Michael Shurtleff

As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.

— Hayden Christensen

Motivation is motive in action.

— Denis Waitley

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what…

— Constantin Stanislavski

“I don't think your motivation matters. All that matters is what you do.”

— Reki Kawahara

Actors always ask their directors what their motivation is in this scene or that scene, so I've always had this joke where I ask…

— Zoe Bell

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

— Jason Robards

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

— Gary Cole

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

— Oscar Isaac

“ 'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for.…

— Nora Roberts

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.

— Kate Beckinsale

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

— Willem Dafoe

From the moment you show someone making a decision on film, you judge that moment and that starts to build your point of view…

— RaMell Ross