Amy Smart Quotes

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

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

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Actors are investigators.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

I get the most joy out of acting and studying new characters.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.