Actors Quote by Sanford Meisner Download Open image “WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.” — Sanford Meisner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Important Important words Inspirational Language Theatre Vocabulary
Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds… — Clare Eames Copy Share Image
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if… — Mary McDonnell Copy Share Image
Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene. — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that. — Gary Cole 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
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
When we watch a film as actors, you have to understand that we always see much more than what's on screen. — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
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