Reacting Quotes

When you’re responding, you’re losing.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

I heard people saying how, in a Rajkummar Rao film, people only watch him in the frame, and he could overshadow others. But I must say, he is such a good co-actor who always lets you act your best, because acting also has a lot depending on reacting.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

It’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

Acting is reacting... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.

Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.