Acting Quote by William Shakespeare

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

— Antonin Artaud

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating…

— Matt Reeves

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

— Hannah More

Some scenes cry out for a certain kind of treatment. The kind we're conditioned by years of film-watching to expect.

— Henry Mancini

The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and…

— David Ayer

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered…

— Mary McCarthy

“Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a…

— Donna Tartt

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and…

— Samuel Johnson

Acting is a mysterious process.

— Bertie Carvel

The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.

— Paolo Giordano

“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…

— Thomas Paine

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

— Ian McLeod