Bill Hader Quotes

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

The most important part of acting is listening. So always act like you’re listening.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.