I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.
Interpretation
The essence of performance lies in subtlety rather than over-exaggeration.
Sigourney Weaver's quote emphasizes the importance of understated performances in acting. She suggests that an actor should not be overly concerned with displaying emotions or actions, but rather trust that the audience will perceive the depth of their portrayal through genuine, internalized expression.
In practice
In a drama class, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of subtlety in acting.
I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.
Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
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