Acting Coaching
Actors' motivational quotes for acting
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In this section you will find actors and directors' quotes and tips for becoming an all-around artist. The quotes give advices and hints on how to improve diction, acting or filmmaking skills. Sometimes, talent is not enough for performing on a high level: listening to the advice of those who have made it is also important. Actors and directors give their best quotes to motivate young artists during their journey of growth and artistical maturation.
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“You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.”
“You manufacture toys, you don't manufacture stars.”
“Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.”
“I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.”
“My true nature, I believe, is writing.”
“There is more that I can learn and there are many people who are as good as, or better at, what I do than I am.”
“In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.”
“How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!”
“You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.”
“All actors should experience public failure.”
“It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.”
“If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don't think of it as anything other than a dance, really. I don't see that person. I don't think of me being me.”
“Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.”
“If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.”
“Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.”
“You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.”
- Also found in The Art of Acting and Filmmaking
“The only thing you have to know are your words.”
- Also found in The Art of Acting and Filmmaking
“Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.”
“When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook, and start the whole thing over again.”
“Sometimes an actor is intelligent enough to overcome his limitations and discover for himself the proper path to follow — that is, he uses his own intelligence . . . When this happens, he has the qualities of a director.”
“To just do nothing but sing like a good jazz singer is hard.”
“The actor who thinks too much is troubled by one ambition: to be great. This is a terrible obstacle and it carries with it the risk that his playing may be deprived of much of its truthfulness.”
“Ten years ago I thought that talent equals accomplishment. You're allowed to accomplish something because you're talented, I thought. In fact, however, accomplishment equals a roll of the dice.”
“The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.”
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