I’m lucky the business I’m in is just forced empathy, because you are constantly putting yourself in the shoes of somebody else.
Acting - Actors Quotes
The majority of great actresses met tragic ends. When I said goodbye to this job, to this life of opulence and glitter, images and adoration, the quest to be desired, I was saving my life.
Not trying to take all the credit for Lizzie McGuire, but I am very much Lizzie McGuire, and she is very much me.
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, […]
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I had to resort to acting. (on how he managed to play Dr. Mengele)
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the […]
To be natural is a very difficult pose to keep up.
