Acting Quote by Viola Davis

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch…

— Kristen Stewart

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

— Jeff Daniels

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a…

— Jared Harris

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real…

— Michael Caine

An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because you're looking…

— Clemence Poesy

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a…

— Pete Doherty

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

— Catherine Hicks

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

— John Travolta

People talk, or however about actors watching themselves, but no, no one likes to watch themselves. Come on. It's extremely difficult. You can't help,…

— Mike Faist

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

— Anthony Hopkins

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I…

— Rob James-Collier

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that…

— Ralph Fiennes