Ciaran Hinds Quotes

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.

My whole thing is, you listen to the actor and help them bring out their best thing.

When you write a script, you hope that people will give it life beyond the script.

For me, the more talented the actor is that I'm working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a scene are easier to believe when the people around you are in the moment just as much as you are.

There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

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