Miriam Shor Quotes

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

Whenever I read a script, I don't differentiate between a kissing scene or an emotional scene.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

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

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.