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@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-12 23:21:57

Working with an #acting #coaching client on a great speech, and the tremor that came into and under their voice as they delivered was really a thing of beauty just now. So glad to see them finding that.
#ActingCoach

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-12 16:16:11

"I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
-Michael Caine
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-12 04:16:33

"When I ask if you’re talented, you’d better say yes. Not in a boasting sort of way, just a quiet confidence: ‘Yes, I’m talented. I know I am.’ You need that. And you need persistence and you need patience, and that’s not contradictory."
—Bryan Cranston
#acting #coaching

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-11 04:16:32

"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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-11 16:16:32

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-10 16:16:33

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
-Cynthia Heimel
#acting #coaching

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-09 04:16:33

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."
-Aristotle
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-10 04:16:33

"I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
-Michael Caine
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-07 16:16:32

"If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose."
-Anthony Hopkins
#acting #coaching

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-09 16:16:37

"Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before."
-Michael Shurtleff
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-07 04:16:33

"The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways."
-Robert Greene
#acting

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-03 16:16:32

"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."
-Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-06 04:16:33

"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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-01 04:16:37

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."
-Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-05 04:16:34

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-01 16:16:13

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-05-31 16:16:32

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-05 16:16:33

"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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-05-31 04:16:13

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-04 04:16:33

"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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-04 16:16:41

"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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-03 04:16:33

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-02 04:16:32

"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
-Sanford Meisner
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-02 16:16:34

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-02 18:22:41

Just updated the links on my Soundcloud, like to my others sites and profiles.
All I have on there is 3 tracks of a little of my voice-over work.
Maybe at some point I will add to it. Feels like that might be a good idea, but hasn't been a high priority for me.
Meanwhile, I've had #acting