Christine Ebersole Quotes

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters.

I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I'm a very emotional person.

I'm an emotional person.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

It's good to explore your darkness.

I'm a better actor because I'm a mother, I think.

As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.

I was a sensitive boy.

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.