Quotes About Naturalness

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

Being unspoiled and natural. You learn how to do it, and then you have to go on being it all the time. Just think of the hell of it—never to be able to chuck something, and say, 'Oh, for the Lord's sake stop bothering me.

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

The other guys did not feel the need to understand themselves that in me was so compelling: they could carry out their personality with the greatest naturalness, while I had to play a part, and this required a considerable acumen and study

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped - virtue is all it holds to. The baby stares all day without blinking its eyes - it has no preferences in the world of externals.

Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and never once did I cry like I saw some of those men out there before they even fired their first shot! I think it has something to do with the unnaturalness of killing compared to the naturalness of giving birth.

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

If you want to seem natural, as if you are comfortable with yourself, you have to act the part; you have to train yourself to not feel nervous and to shape your appearance so that in your naturalness you don't offend people or the group values. Those who sulk and refuse to perform end up marginalized, as the group unconsciously expels such types.

To bewitch" is to me always slightly artificial as it is always put on -- whereas witchery is a form of naturalness that some people can't help, and the world judges that they don't create it ...> November 15 1967 memo to Mrs. Loew Gross re "THE ROMANTIC POINT OF VIEW

I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.

If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones. 

The sincerity of intellectual affirmation has nothing to do with the naturalness of spontaneous emotion.

I suddenly felt something like tenderness for that man. I felt the tenderness one feels for common human banality, for the daily routine of the family breadwinner going to work, for his humble and happy home, for the happy and sad pleasures that necessarily make up his life, for the innocence of living without analysing, for the animal naturalness of that coat-covered back.

La artificialidad es la manera de disfrutar la naturalidad. Lo que he disfrutado de estos campos vastos, lo he disfrutado porque no vivo aquí. No siente la libertad quien nunca se ha visto oprimido.

I tend to like things that already exist.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.