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Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.