Lana Condor Quotes

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.