Rod Serling Quotes

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.

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

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there's no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.