Howard Hawks Quotes

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

There were a couple times with close-ups where I tended to overact. I would use more of my face than I needed to. I learned how to be more subtle.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

Less is more. You should wear earrings or bracelets, but not both.

Simple goes a long way.

I always think less is more.

Basically, less is more when it comes to film.

Less is more. I would notice that when I did my makeup, I was putting on more makeup than they did on me at shoots. A little goes a long way, so I definitely learned how to wear less.

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less