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Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances
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Action is Character.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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Character is the plot in many ways
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I cast unusual people in my movies.
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Outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden may just be the stark, naked face of reality.
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If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel ... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
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I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.
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You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
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Modeling is really silent acting.
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Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.
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Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.
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Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.
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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
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To introduce real people into a novel or a play is a sign of an unimaginative mind, a coarse, untutored observation and an entire absence of style.
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'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.
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I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.
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Character is what we do when no one else is watching"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]
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I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.
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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Character: the grandest thing in the world.
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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
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I played an unsympathetic part
myself.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Acting is acting.
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My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.
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Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.
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The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.
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Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
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Actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.
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I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.
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I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.
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The motion picture is the people's Art.
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I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.
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Character is what we are in the dark
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Character is what you do when no one is watching.
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Let me play a man in a scene.
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I'm not acting, but I am acting.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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Acting is a mysterious process.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!
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The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks.
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This is a work of fiction.
If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel.
Nobody, therefore, is entitled to feel included in this book.
Nobody, by the same token, to feel excluded.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help ...
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As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
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The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters ...
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The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people.
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How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't.
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An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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Believe in the character; animate with sincerity
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Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
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Such is the disconcerting miracle of good acting; at its best it implicitly challenges our faith in who we are, who anyone is.
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Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
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You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.
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I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.
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Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning ... I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
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An actor should have not one face but a thousand faces; like the phoenix which carries a print of each animal, an actor should carry a print of each human being!
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Nothing I did or said among the other boys came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter, even the most glancing, I had to be a performer, for at all times I was aware I was impersonating a human being.
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.
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It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.
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All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.
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Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
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People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
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I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.
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All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.
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You don't have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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We lived and breathed acting.
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Character is ethics in action.
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What you show is what you represent
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We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.
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Acting is my job.
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To be is to be perceived
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People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.
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In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
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I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
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When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
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Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.
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The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
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Acting is pretending to be someone else.
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... my subjects' willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.
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I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.
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Character demonstrates itself in trifles.