A Quote by Sarah Lancashire

Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.

Sarah Lancashire

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Acting Combination Extrovert Hiding Me Painful Revealing Subtle Yourself

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Sarah Lancashire
British - Actress
Born: October 10, 1964

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

Loretta Swit

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

Betty Friedan

I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think I am still hiding.

Nigel Hawthorne

John Cassavetes' films have really altered the way I see film and acting and storytelling and emotion and love, so I see acting as this incredible revealing of human nature and this means of telling our story, sharing our voice with the world. That's what acting is for me. It allows for people to experience things through the character, through the story.

Tatiana Maslany

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

Maggie Scarf

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Idina Menzel

Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.

Pema Chodron

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

Raf Simons

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Billy Wilder

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

Graham Kerr

I love acting. Modeling is fun, too, but I feel like there is more room to stretch yourself and open yourself up to new experiences with acting. That's why I got into acting in the first place.

Arden Cho

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

Leo Tolstoy

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

Will Ferrell

What I do is I don't act a part, I give a piece of myself. Old friends that have known me for a long time, when they saw me in my first movie said: "Roland you are not acting; you are just being yourself." But I don't think you can deliver a role without putting something of yourself into it, and I just realised that everyday we do a little bit of acting.