Elia Kazan Quotes

I play my part in my films with utmost honesty.

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won't ring true. No matter what the script says, there's no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There's no make-believe. It's for real.

After doing films like 'Krrish,' 'Bang Bang,' and 'Mohenjo Daro,' 'Kaabil' is one film where you can't lie at all. You can't be a hero. You have to be real. You have to be yourself. So that was a challenge.

I might be the only guy in WWE who isn't acting ever.