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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

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.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

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

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