Alla Nazimova Quotes

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

Theatre contributes in the growth of an actor and lets one know the real worth of acting.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Acting is what happens on the way.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.