Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.

What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

Sometimes, you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And, other times, you just know what that feeling of hurt, love, anger and depression is, and you do whatever it takes to get there in your mind, and use it to your advantage, whichever way it works best.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

I like things that are never one way. Usually, emotionally, I make the films based on a type of energy. I try to work with things that are more difficult to articulate. And so, that's more of a feeling. And so, the things that have attracted me are more of the things that are morally complicated or emotionally complicated.

As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know, so I can write a positive song like 'Better Get to Livin'' because that's my attitude. But that doesn't mean I'm happy all the time. You can't be a deep and serious songwriter without feelings. You kinda have to live with your feelings out on your sleeve and get hurt more than most people. The fear I might get hurt means I might not be able to write another song.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.