You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.
Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.
WWE is live. There is no second take.
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.
When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.
I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv.
Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, "I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. "
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.
Something has to happen that you can't coach.
I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.
With 'Guardians,' I knew way from the start what the plan was on this one. The harder thing for some actors is when you are doing a TV show like 'The Walking Dead' because you find out you're character is going to die a week before or even just a couple of days before.
Trump is a room-reader. He'll slow down a line, rephrase a point, work in a pause, and ride the energy of his audience wherever it takes him.
I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.
Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.
You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Steve hadn't been to acting school. He had no preconceived notions. His background was exactly what you see on television; he's done that all his life. We thought we'd do one show. What happened was, it did really well, so we did a part two. And from then on, we found that Steve's natural behavior in the wild happens to be fascinating!
Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show. And that's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is, and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.
