Condola Rashad Quotes

I'm not really a crying type.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I'm not a crybaby.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

Luckily, on 'Kyle XY,' I had great training in being tough and vulnerable at the same time.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I'm not a big crier.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Anyone who wants to offer me as mushy, earthy, crunchy a role as they can, I will probably take it. In real life, I cry at a drop of a hat, and I'm a mom, and I'm pretty mushy! We all have so many colors as actors that we want to show.

I'm so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It's so bizarre to me... I do have those qualities, and I just don't think there's anything wrong with them.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.