Acting Quote by Sanford Meisner Download Open image “Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” — Sanford Meisner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Circumstances Imaginary Inspirational Theatre actors
As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. — Saba Qamar Copy Share Image
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating. — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth. — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in. — Karen Gillan Copy Share Image
Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
