Kelli Williams Quotes

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

All over the world, actors and actresses are chosen for their performing skills. Not how they look or what they wear. It is all about how they act, how they emote.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

I want to show audiences I can act.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

We have had examples in our industry of people working for 30-40 years because of their ability to act. Your looks leave you after a point, you don't look the same way you did when you were in your 20s or 30s. After that you have only your ability to show.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

I always believe an actor is as good as the content as he gets or chooses.

I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they read the part and nail it, but then when it comes to the performance, they don't have something.

Anybody who has wanted me to go out there and pull some emotion out and act like we are going to get down, that's what I specialize in. That's fine. That's something that I do, and that's something that I've done over the breadth of my career. With Brock Lesnar, regardless of who he is, it was going to be no different.

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.