A Quote by Anthony Hopkins

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

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Anthony Hopkins
Welsh - Actor
Born: December 31, 1937

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

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

Amy Poehler

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Reid Scott

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

Ken Marino

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

Paresh Rawal

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

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

Candace Gingrich-Jones

I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.

Eddie Murphy

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

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

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

Becky G

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

Amyra Dastur

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.