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"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
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"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
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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
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"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

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

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

"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

"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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"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
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Working with an #acting #coaching client on a speech and finding the arc of it. Within that arc there are options for how intense and how unhinged to get. So good to have them playing with those options, and see, feel and hear what is resonating from it.

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

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#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 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
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"I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge."
—Hayden Christensen
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"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

"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

"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
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"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
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"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

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

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

Working with an #acting #coaching client we delved into tactics and how changing them can interplay with the character's goals. Seeing them shift their performance as they changed tactics was such a cool way to see the performance shift without breaking from, or just breaking, the script or char…

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

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

"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 …

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

"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
#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

"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

"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

"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

"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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
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"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

"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

"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

"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
#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

"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

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
—Cate Blanchett
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"Acting is experience with something sweet behind it."
—Humphrey Bogart
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"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#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 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

"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

Started working with an #acting #coaching client on a new audition piece, and its passionate anchor, just there within the text, was so cool to see them connecting with even right on their first time reading through.

"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
#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

"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 …

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#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

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

"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 …

"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 …

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

"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

"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

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

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

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

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

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#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

"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
#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

"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

"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

"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

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

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

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

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

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching