Danny

“that energy is the direct result of how much you care about what is happening. If the content of the scene—if what is happening in your performance life—is important enough, you will be listening with sufficient intensity, absorbing and responding with sufficient intensity, to create the necessary energy.”
― Tony Barr, Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

“people who expect more generally get more.”
― G. Richard Shell, Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

“Montgomery Clift once said he learned that, in film acting, you had to speak softly and think loud.”
― Tony Barr, Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

“Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting—intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self heard and seen. Talent alone is not enough. Character and ethics, a point of view about the world in which you live and an education, can and must be acquired and developed.”
― Uta Hagen, Respect for Acting