"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity."

Acting, Insanity, Living

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"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Acting, Man

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Acting, Writing

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

John Boorman, British Director

Acting, Actors, Being

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."

Jimmy Smits, American Actor

Acting, Actors, Minority, Projects

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

David Morse, American Actor

Acting, Pleasure

"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."

Frankie Muniz, American Actor

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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."

Harry Shearer, American Actor

Acting, Voice

"It was always part of the plan to move into acting."

Aaliyah, American Musician

Acting,

"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

Acting, Blame, Film, Result

"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium."

Arthur Lowe, British Actor

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Explore more quotes by Isabelle Huppert

"Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug."

Time, Hope, Evening, Play

"It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it."

Work, Act, Being, Example

"Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture."

Change, Sculpture, Space, Theatre

"For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!"

Music, Being, Listening, World

"For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top."

Being, Theatre, Vacation

"The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre."

Character, Purpose, Interest, Theatre

"Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else."

Experience, Funny, Sacrifice, People

"But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people."

Society, People, Connection

"But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach."

Music, Soul, Film

"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity."

Acting, Insanity, Living