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[upon seeing Dustin Hoffman`s "method" acting technique of not sleeping and making a mess of himself to get into character while shooting Marathon Man (1976)] Dear boy, it`s called acting.
Laurence Olivier
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I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
Christopher Lee
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I don`t have a technique. I`ve never been a believer in having one set technique on how to act. There are no rules and there is no rulebook. At the end of the day, it all comes down to my instincts. That`s the one thing that guides me through every decisi...
Heath Ledger
Keywords: act :: all :: and :: are :: at :: been :: believer :: comes :: day :: decision :: don :: down :: end :: every :: guides :: have :: having :: how :: in :: instincts :: is :: it :: me :: my :: never :: no :: of :: on :: one :: pr :: rulebook :: rules :: set :: technique :: that :: the :: there :: thing :: through :: to :: veSource: imdb.com
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I don`t have a technique. I`ve never been a believer in having one set technique on how to act. There are no rules and there is no rulebook. At the end of the day, it all comes down to my instincts. That`s the one thing that guides me through every decisi...
Heath Ledger
Keywords: act :: all :: and :: are :: at :: been :: believer :: comes :: day :: decision :: don :: down :: end :: every :: guides :: have :: having :: how :: in :: instincts :: is :: it :: me :: my :: never :: no :: of :: on :: one :: pr :: rulebook :: rules :: set :: technique :: that :: the :: there :: thing :: through :: to :: veSource: imdb.com
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I don`t think I have a particular style or acting technique. What I think I have is the ability to fiddle with my own character and make it do different things.
Jeffrey Jones
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(On whether he operates camera in his movies): The criterion is when I want to see what`s going on through the lens. Usually, it comes down to performance more than technique...I`ve also worked with the same camera crews, even down to the assistants, on t...
Michael Mann
Keywords: also :: assistants :: camera :: comes :: crews :: criterion :: down :: even :: going :: he :: his :: in :: is :: it :: last :: lens :: more :: movies :: on :: operates :: performance :: same :: see :: technique :: than :: the :: through :: to :: usually :: ve :: want :: what :: when :: whether :: with :: workedSource: imdb.com
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When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. My technique, which differs from film to film, is wholly instinctive and never based on prior considerations.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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You can always learn something [in bad acting classes], maybe it`s a technique you don`t like; maybe it`s a style. But you learn different things.
Danielle Panabaker
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I just always loved to sing, but I was always too chicken. I got a wonderful singing teacher in Los Angeles, and I would sneak into his studio and work on technique and sing songs and skulk out, and that was as far as I got. That was years ago, so I final...
Mary Masterson
Keywords: ago :: always :: and :: angeles :: as :: but :: chicken :: far :: finally :: got :: his :: in :: into :: just :: los :: loved :: on :: out :: sai :: sing :: singing :: skulk :: sneak :: so :: songs :: studio :: teacher :: technique :: that :: to :: too :: was :: wonderful :: work :: would :: yearsSource: imdb.com
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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
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I don`t think film acting is necessarily a triumph of technique. Film stardom is a friendship that happens between an audience and a performer. Its like you meet someone and you click with that person for whatever reason.
Richard Dreyfuss
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With most people when there`s a pain in their life there`s mental scar tissue that forms over the pain and helps you go on living. An actor`s scar tissue really never covers over things the same way, not if you`re going to be sensitive. With good techniqu...
Frances McDormand
Keywords: actor :: an :: and :: be :: covers :: forms :: go :: going :: good :: helps :: if :: in :: life :: living :: mental :: most :: never :: not :: on :: over :: pain :: people :: re :: really :: same :: scar :: sensitive :: technique :: that :: the :: their :: there :: things :: tissue :: to :: way :: when :: with :: youSource: imdb.com
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My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, `Give me a break.`
James Caan
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I just try to be myself. (on his acting technique)
Wilford Brimley
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I guess what I`m trying to say is, it`s not Dracula crying, it`s Gary Oldman, but using the technique of the character. The emotion is mine, because I don`t know what it`s like to be undead and live 300 years.
Gary Oldman
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Film is a dramatized reality and it is the director`s job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
David Lean
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I liked the movement, technique and philosophy and I was training to be the best. Karate`s a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentra...
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Keywords: and :: at :: be :: best :: boring :: but :: can :: concentration :: further :: go :: karate :: know :: least :: liked :: movement :: need :: or :: philosophy :: seven :: six :: sport :: technique :: the :: to :: training :: understand :: very :: was :: when :: years :: youSource: imdb.com
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I liked the movement, technique and philosophy and I was training to be the best. Karate`s a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentra...
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Keywords: and :: at :: be :: best :: boring :: but :: can :: concentration :: further :: go :: karate :: know :: least :: liked :: movement :: need :: or :: philosophy :: seven :: six :: sport :: technique :: the :: to :: training :: understand :: very :: was :: when :: years :: youSource: imdb.com
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I really owe my first big opportunity to Irving Thalberg`s technique of remaking pictures to his satisfaction. I was hired for a bit part as Helen Hayes` son in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and, after shooting was completed, Thalberg kept adding scen...
Robert Young
Keywords: 1931 :: adding :: after :: and :: as :: big :: bit :: claudet :: completed :: first :: for :: hayes :: helen :: hired :: his :: in :: irving :: kept :: madelon :: my :: of :: opportunity :: owe :: part :: pictures :: really :: remaking :: satisfaction :: scenes :: shooting :: sin :: son :: technique :: thalberg :: the :: to :: wasSource: imdb.com
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It`s not a film-maker`s job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.
Mike Nichols
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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn`t it?
Charlie Watts
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You must have the ability, if I may say so, to use such a high grip. You must have perfect technique. Then you can move to a higher grip.
Andrea Macy
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You know, comedy`s hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
Julianne Moore
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You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there`s very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they`re the same 30 years later.
Alec Baldwin
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You can practice to learn a technique, but I`m more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
Herbie Hancock
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Without a doubt she can win in Beijing. She has beautiful technique, she has plenty of time and she`s still improving.
Sharron Davies
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When you sing it in meditation technique it harmonizes your own life -- you make the connection with things in your life that are near and dear to you.
Doug White
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When they saw me wrestle, that`s when they moved me to defense, ... Wrestling is kind of the same technique you`d use on the defensive line, where you have to stay low and use your hands.
Aubry Cook
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When I`m painting the picture, I`m really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don`t get any thrill out of laying it out.
Alex Costakis
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When I was studying... there weren`t any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
Nina Simone
Keywords: and :: any :: as :: become :: black :: choices :: classic :: classical :: concert :: do :: had :: have :: heard :: in :: intuitive :: it :: known :: music :: my :: people :: pianist :: pianists :: so :: studying :: technique :: the :: there :: to :: was :: were :: weren :: whenSource: brainyquote.com
