Cedric Hardwicke Quotes

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

I feel any actor can deliver a dialogue but real acting is how one reacts to the dialogue.

It's a wonderful thing to watch an actor just act.

It is a treat to do scenes where you silently enact.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

Sometimes you read things that people don't even notice in a performance, that you just are moved by or understand that this actor is really living his or her life on the screen. The first time I realized that was when I watched Brando in 'On the Waterfront.'

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

The only direction I can give to an actor, a good actor who knows his skills, is, 'Here are those words. They're yours. Make them yours. Don't tell the text but be the text.' That means you have to be the emotion of the text.