Emma Watson Quotes

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Acting is acting.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

I think all actors are professional liars.

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [ accent]. And then I got on set [of 'J.F.Kennedy' movie ] and forgot it.But that's what you want to do. You want it to just be real. And I think authenticity was better than - people always talk about when an accent doesn't work, and the phrase you always hear is, "It was inconsistent."

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.