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The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Craig MacDonald

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Craig MacDonald
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Born: April 7, 1977

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

Bruce Springsteen

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Ann Richards

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

Sammo Hung

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

Paul Morrissey

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Michel Foucault

I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

Essie Davis

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Guy Ritchie

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Albert Einstein

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

Rem Koolhaas

The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.

Carl Jung

Some directors are open to ideas, and some are rigid. And, some actors are into method acting, and some, instinctive.

Shriya Saran

It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

Alan Watts

I'm not an instinctive actor.

John Thaw

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.

Rose McGowan

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

David Olusoga

Love isn't rational, it's instinctive

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