Jean Kerr Quotes

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote.

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.

Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

You should see my stepdad's face when he's lifting something. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen! So you can't expect, just because I'm a potentially pretty person, that I won't allow myself to try out emotional states that might make me look ugly to some people.

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

In the small amount of modeling work I've done, I'm always told that I never smile.

Crying does not equal good acting.

The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

All my muscles are in my face. I have a very muscular face. I'm good with faces. I always have been.

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.

Never say never - and I certainly don't judge anyone who does it. But most of the characters I play are going through some kind of emotional turmoil, so my job requires me to have expression. If my face was froze, what right do I have to play that part? All the women who haven't done anything to their faces are still able to play great roles. And some of the ones who have done something have messed it up - they look freakish. Anyway, for me it's about playing women with rich lives - and the longer the life, the deeper the wrinkles.