Quotes from Judith Weston

Meryl Streep disclosed in an interview with Gene Siskel that for every role she gives herself a secret, something which her character would not want others to know, and which she herself conceals from her co-stars; in "Kramer vs. Kramer" her secret was that she never had loved her husband.

The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." — Helen Mirren

This is why many people find performances of Shakespeare incomprehensible, because the actors are playing the poetry instead of letting the lines mean something and playing the situation.

I think that if you have a talent for acting, it is the talent for listening." — Morgan Freeman

In real life, as I mentioned in the first chapter, people don't try to have feelings, and frequently they try not to have them.