Eve Hewson Quotes

When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

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

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

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

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

Acting is about being in the moment and audiences are smart to know what is authentic and what is not.

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

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

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.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

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.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.