Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.
Colin FirthTags: character acting role-playing villain
I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older
Lauren OliverTags: acting listening pretending
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
Jennifer DonnellyTags: shakespeare theater revolution paris acting stage
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.
Jennifer DonnellyTags: loneliness theater sad revolution acting stage
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.
Ingrid BergmanTags: advice acting alfred-hitchcock filming-scenes
I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.
Ingrid BergmanTags: perception characters myth acting movie-screenplay
There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
Connie BrockwayTags: life life-lessons acting perfection
And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.
Connie BrockwayTags: advice writing smile acting dialog
To be too knowing is a downfall.
Laura LinneyTags: knowledge character acting choices charlie-rose-show
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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