Acting Is Reacting Quotes

#1. Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Reid Scott

#2. Acting is reacting.

Stella Adler

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

Martin Freeman

#4. Acting is reacting ... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.

Josh Keaton

#5. Acting to me is always reacting.

Spencer Tracy

#6. true acting out is an expression of intense underlying affects without conscious awareness of them, not just another undesirable and difficult patient behavior

James A. Chu

#7. Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

Jim Jarmusch

#8. I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

Malin Akerman

#9. When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Mariel Hemingway

#10. The key to any lasting contentment is learning to see and accept reality for what it is and then acting skillfully, rather than reacting when reality fails to conform to our expectations.

Bhava Ram

#11. 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.

Robert Englund

#12. All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Nick Murray

#13. Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.

Bill Simmons

#14. The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

Nicolas Roeg

#15. The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

Val Kilmer

#16. Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

Anthony Hopkins

#17. Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

Candace Gingrich-Jones

#18. The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld

#19. The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

Ken Marino

#20. Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Nathan Fillion

#21. It's better to act than it is to react. Acting gets you in trouble. Reacting all too frequently gets you dead.

Seanan McGuire

#22. I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

Stephen Root

#23. I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.

Jim Jarmusch

#24. Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.

Michael Shurtleff

#25. I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Viggo Mortensen

#26. Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

Rick Warren