Denzel Washington Quotes

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.

As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I mean, stand up you're by yourself and it's live and when you're acting, unless you're doing a monologue, you're interacting with somebody else. Even if you're doing a monologue you're saying it to somebody and it's not live so you can do it a few times.

From an acting point of view you need to look at what you're bringing in.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me.