Alex Ebert Quotes

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

If you're in a room and can be seen by actors, you need to understand that you can be felt by them.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

My whole process is based on meditation as well as listening really closely to what the director says and what the choreographer says. I try to stay in the immediate present reality with my partners on stage, give and take reality.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.

For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.

Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

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

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.