Shiri Appleby Quotes

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

I think good acting is always character acting.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Every actor just wants good writing.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

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

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.