"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

-Mikhail Baryshnikov

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

-Aristotle

"You cannot try to get the job. Just go in there, have some fun, and do your version of that part. This is what I’m selling. If you want to buy it, that’s cool. Have some adjustments for me? That’s fine, I’ll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do. That’s the attitude, sort of a ‘f*ck it’ attitude. Not f*ck you, but f*ck it."

—Sam Rockwell

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

-Michael Shurtleff

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."

-Cynthia Heimel

"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."

-Meryl Streep

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."

-Judi Dench

"I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting."

-Chris Evans

"What drove me to give voice to this dream, to step in front of the camera again not knowing what the outcome was going to be, was…fear of regret. I don’t want to live my life with regrets."

—Ke Huy Quan

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."

-Jake Gyllenhaal

"The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways."

-Robert Greene

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a speech and memorization techniques for it. Many ways to work with text can double as memory aides. Always good seeing the text and actor connecting.

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

-Michael Shurtleff

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

-Spencer Tracy

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."

-Cynthia Heimel

"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."

-Denzel Washington

"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable."

-Jack Lemmon

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."

-Tim Curry

"When everyone is working at such a diligent level, an intentional level, you can lean on those shoulders. The weight is not all on you, even if you are the lead. It’s a community for a reason."

—Danielle Deadwyler

"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."

-Tom Cruise