Vicky Krieps Quotes

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

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

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

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

When you see bad acting, that's usually what it is - they're not listening to the other characters. It's always hard with first-time actors to get them in that moment where they are really listening to the other characters and reacting to the other characters.

Acting is reacting. That's when acting is great - when you say something, somebody said something, they make a face, they pose, they use something physical, then you react to that, then they react to you.

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.