Anne Hathaway Quotes

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

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

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.