#act

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#always #behaviour #doing #entertainment #hopefully

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#character #extraordinary #feel #genius #hand

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#acting #actually #also #completely #different

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#basically #bouncing #could #down #extraordinary

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid. ↗

— Will Smith

#create #focus #get #had #i

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. ↗

— Henry Reed

#chemical #chemical reactions #hearing #listening #only

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#black #could #difficulty #economic #fact

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#alive #because #believer #boring #brain

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. ↗

— Scott Reed

#being #brain #constantly #corresponding #corresponds

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort. ↗

— Scott Reed

#action #always #any #automatically #begin