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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
—Morgan Freeman
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"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Gave an #acting #coaching client a very specific, even narrow note for a next take, and they brought a specificity to how they were entreating the other character that was new, and cool. Almost always: specific is more fun and interesting than vague.

With an #acting #coaching client, we tried what we thought was the opposite intent of the scene. Remarkably, we found the writing not only tolerated it, but allowed a wider scope of feelings and goals than we'd first assumed. Cool discovery.

Directed an #Acting #Coaching client to choose the level of their character's mental illness for a take and we'd see if I could tell what they chose. To my surprise and joy, the impact on the final moments of the scene was terrifyingly new, and fascinating to discover.

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
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"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Anyone have any good ideas for scenes for an actor that is female presenting with an age range of 9-14?
Film, TV or theatre.
#acting #actors

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft."
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft."
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
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"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"It’s tough, acting. you have to walk two lines of a tightrope. there’s the all consuming fear of failure… and there’s also confidence – you have to be confident to try new things – And they fight each other all the time."
—Jessica Chastain
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An #acting #coaching client used the emotional/physical reality of their own day as a starting point for their character, and it was so interesting and fun. I'm a big fan of starting with what you have, and where you are, and letting that be some great raw material.

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

"If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft."
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

"You cannot try to 'get the job'. Just go in there, have some fun and do your version of that part. 'This is what I'm selling. If you want to buy it, that's cool. Have some adjustments for me? That's fine, I'll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do.' THAT'S the attitude, sort of 'f*ck it' attitude. Not f*ck you...but, f*ck it."
—Sam Rockwell

"Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best."
—Nathan Fillion
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Started some new material with an #acting #coaching client and seeing them finding new bits of business from the direction and then starting building out the character's moves and vibe in even the first few takes was so entertaining. Love my clients.

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Worked with an #acting #coaching on a scene and one line was proving a challenge. So we interrogated the text of the line in a few different ways, found how it opened up, could have space in it and come out differently. Cool discovering ways to connect to it, get inside it.

"Acting is experience with something sweet behind it."
—Humphrey Bogart
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Early in my career, I learned how to hit singles...until I knew I could hit a single, I didn't go for the moon shots."
—Bryan Cranston
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Early in my career, I learned how to hit singles...until I knew I could hit a single, I didn't go for the moon shots."
-Bryan Cranston
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft."
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
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"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Early in my career, I learned how to hit singles...until I knew I could hit a single, I didn't go for the moon shots."
—Bryan Cranston
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Worked with #acting #coaching client on new material. 3rd run thru: a single change, they started to connect to the root of the character, and I could see what props would support their work in a final production, like they were there. Cool reality distortion field.

Asked a new actor #acting #coaching client to try tweaking a few different things, both internal and external, in their performance. Witnessing their changes, and transforming voice, was really vivid.
#ActingCoach

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
—Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

Had an #acting #coaching client make a single physical change be the focus of a take and shot to see and hear their voice expand into the character in a whole new way. So good to hear their voice more fully animate the moments with new depths.

Working with an #acting #coaching client as they prep a role for self-tape. They did 3 very different takes in rehearsal, great seeing them dial in different aspects and versions of the performance. Looking forward to seeing them pick, choose and blend parts of the 3.

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client who is new to acting. For a take on the first scene they've done, I asked them to change one physical thing they were doing. That take, from the first sentence suddenly had a different life behind it. So good to see.

"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Early in my career, I learned how to hit singles...until I knew I could hit a single, I didn't go for the moon shots."
—Bryan Cranston
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Exploring a scene with an #acting #coaching client, we tried 3 different physical changes/postures. We discovered very cool changes in intention, the relationship and the whole tone, including a nice underlying friendship the characters have through it.

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching

"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a brand new (to us) piece of text, and learning who the character was even on the ice cold reading (never read before) was inspiring. Some roles are clear instantly from the start, some require we do more homework to start finding them.

"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

"If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft."
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

Working with an #acting #coaching client on an emotionally pitched scene, and by making one physical change (for rehearsal's sake), we shifted the way they were speaking, and that revealed an emotional turn the character can make later in the scene because of it. Very cool discovery.

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
—Cate Blanchett
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"You cannot try to 'get the job'. Just go in there, have some fun and do your version of that part. 'This is what I'm selling. If you want to buy it, that's cool. Have some adjustments for me? That's fine, I'll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do.' THAT'S the attitude, sort of 'f*ck it' attitude. Not f*ck you...but, f*ck it."
—Sam Rockwell

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching