Natural Reactions Quotes

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

I like it when characters respond to things that are outrageous and movie-like in an authentic way.

I think people always respond to real moments.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

I want authenticity, I don't want players to make a show. I want players to be able to be themselves on court and express all kinds of emotions.

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.

Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.