Cindy Busby Quotes

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

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.

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

The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

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

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

A play is a passion.

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

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

Write as if you were dying.

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.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera.

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Of course, you can never watch something like somebody else watches something like you, but nonetheless, you have to try. So I think on camera you learn a lot about how much the camera does for you, which is what is the great luxury of movie acting. Or acting whether it's TV or movies or whatever it is, that the camera's really such a gift because there's so much that it sees and does if you're willing to just be open and expose yourself and all of that. So you also learn what doesn't matter. And sometimes when you think about things, you think things matter that don't matter.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.