Acting is mostly about ...

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
 Alan Rickman

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I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
 Olivia Palermo
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
 George S. Patton
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See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
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I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
 Alan Rickman
You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
 Alan Rickman
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
 Alan Rickman