Cameron Crowe Quotes

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

A lot of people say actions are stronger than words, and I think, in acting, this is a very accurate thing.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

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

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

I think acting is a work of imagination.