Rex Harrison Quotes

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.