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"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
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"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
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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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"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
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"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
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"I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting."
-Chris Evans
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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
-Thornton Wilder
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"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
-Sanford Meisner
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"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
-Jake Gyllenhaal
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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
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"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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"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

"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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"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
-Denzel Washington
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"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
-Meryl Streep
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"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
-Cate Blanchett
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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
-Stella Adler
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"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
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"My approach is to look at the character’s world. Often, we get so locked into memorizing lines and practicing how we’re going to say those lines, when in reality the lines are just a symbol or representation of the person. I spend a lot of time getting into the character’s life. Every character has a point of view, so what informs this character’s point of view?"
—Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
-Dennis Farina
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"Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting."
-Rufus Sewell
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If I do acting coaching with my clients remotely with @…, can I say I use defense grade security?
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Got to work with an #acting #coaching client today on material I know really well and they were cold reading. Their second read was like a breathe of fresh air, and the words were new again. I kinda love it.
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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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"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
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"I think the process of making anything is going as far afield as you can and then reconnecting to the original impulse. That’s the gig."
—Lin-Manuel Miranda
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"Comedy is acting out optimism."
-Robin Williams
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"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation."
-Bette Davis
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"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
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"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
-Spencer Tracy
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"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
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"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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"What drove me to give voice to this dream, to step in front of the camera again not knowing what the outcome was going to be, was…fear of regret. I don’t want to live my life with regrets."
—Ke Huy Quan
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"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
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"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
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"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
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"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
-Jake Gyllenhaal
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"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable."
-Jack Lemmon
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
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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

"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

Working with an #acting #coaching client today on a piece of really well written text that also has meanings beneath the literal words, and feeling them finding their unique way to them was so cool. They're opening up who their version of the character can be, and it is wonderful to see it takin…

"Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting."
-Rufus Sewell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"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

"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

"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
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
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"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
-Denzel Washington
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"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
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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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"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
-Sanford Meisner
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"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
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"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
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"I think the process of making anything is going as far afield as you can and then reconnecting to the original impulse. That’s the gig."
—Lin-Manuel Miranda
#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

"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 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
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"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation."
-Bette Davis
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"When everyone is working at such a diligent level, an intentional level, you can lean on those shoulders. The weight is not all on you, even if you are the lead. It’s a community for a reason."
—Danielle Deadwyler
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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
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Working with an #acting #coaching client on some #audition material, and found some new objectives, new things for them to work to get from the other character. That helped them kinda unlock their perf…

"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
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Re-reading my post "Lights Out" about acting and impermanence.
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Lights Out
ephemeral nature of our work

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

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#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

"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

"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
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"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
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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
-Meryl Streep
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"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."
-Rodney Dangerfield
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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 gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
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"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
-Adam Driver
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"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

"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
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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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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
-Oscar Wilde
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"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
-Jake Gyllenhaal
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"Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active."
-Michael Shurtleff
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#acting #coaching #inspiration

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

"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

"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
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Working with an #acting #coaching client on brilliant material and finding how to make horrifying and inevitable choices the character makes into things that unavoidably happen in the moment and finding how the text demands them. Fascinating and wonderful seeing them find it.

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

"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
-Sanford Meisner
#acting #coaching #inspiration

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

"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
-Thornton Wilder
#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
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"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
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"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
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