Wanderlei Silva Quotes

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.

You've got to find a way to relate to people. I just did an improvised episode for Joe Swanberg's new Netflix show, 'Easy,' and it was a huge learning curve for me and taught me so much about fear and courage. But when you're present in the moment, the audience, it's incomparable.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen.

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

You put your heart and soul into something and it makes you a little bit vulnerable.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.