Jane Greer Quotes

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

I'm not a solid enough actor to have techniques.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing, how will you perform? For me, it is important to know the language.

I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.