A Quote by Maxine Peake

I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.

Maxine Peake

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Maxine Peake
English - Actress
Born: July 14, 1974

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

Jim Jarmusch

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

Anthony Hopkins

Acting is reacting... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.

Josh Keaton

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

Malin Akerman

Acting to me is always reacting.

Spencer Tracy

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

Candace Gingrich-Jones

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Martin Freeman

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Viggo Mortensen

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Nathan Fillion

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

Ken Marino

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Robert Englund

Acting is nothing but reacting, so if your co-stars react in a particular way, it does affect your acting as well.

Paresh Rawal

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

Nicolas Roeg

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

George H. Smith

That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do.

Melissa Leo

I understand in the context of acting, it allows me to manifest character, but I am no wiser then the next person that is living up a life, that is acting and reacting to the built-up circumstances around them.

Peter Scolari

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