Emoting Quotes

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I just have to add words, and I can do films.' But also, my success as a model made me more confident about becoming an actress because, just in case I failed, I thought, 'Well, you know, if I failed as an actress, I can do another job.'

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.

Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

If there's a scene in which I need to cry or emote heavily, I just take care of it during the dubbing sessions.

When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.

You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

All over the world, actors and actresses are chosen for their performing skills. Not how they look or what they wear. It is all about how they act, how they emote.

Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

My uncle is an actor, my dad is a producer, so they asked me if I was interested, and I was like, 'How can someone act in front of so many people with lights and emote.'

Feeling and reacting has more impact than just trying to emote what your character's saying.

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

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

I'm in a lower register because I'm not trying to shout out over a wall of amps. Singing lower sounded very pleasing to my ear, and it made it easier for me to emote.

Being an actor in TV or movies is different. A film or TV actor, if put in theatre, won't know certain dimensions, while a theatre actor won't know certain things when he comes before the camera. So I think a film actor can learn emoting from this theatre counterpart, while the theatre actor can learn about camera techniques from the film actor.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting.