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

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
-Denzel Washington
#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'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…

"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

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

"Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active."
-Michael Shurtleff
#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 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

"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

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation."
-Bette Davis
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"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
-Sanford Meisner
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"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
-Tatiana Maslany
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"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
-Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration

#improv #acting #AynRand

"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

"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

"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

Re-reading my post "Lights Out" about acting and impermanence.
#acting

Lights Out
ephemeral nature of our work

"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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
-Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"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
#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

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

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

"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

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
-Oscar Wilde
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#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

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
-Mikhail Baryshnikov
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"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

Working with an #acting #coaching client just now, and found how to make the really good writing we're working with have its levels open up. The optimism on the part of the character propelled the pace in one take whereas approaching from pessimism found more dis-regulation on another.

"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

"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

"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…

"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

"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

Had my #acting #coaching client try the same piece of text two extreme ways how the text suggests, and they found which parts worked better with which way (done less extremely). They did good work discovering new options.

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

"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
-Denzel Washington
#acting #coaching #inspiration

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

"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable."
-Jack Lemmon
#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 …

"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

Just had an #acting #coaching client with a new piece of material find the last line of it totally anew as the character was deeper from our having worked on the speech. So cool to see.
#ActingCoach

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
-Oscar Wilde
#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

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

"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

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

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

"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

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"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
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Introduced an #acting #coaching client to new material and so cool to see them finding the character. The specifics already started to emerge on the second reading.
#ActingCoach

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
-Carl Jung
#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

"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

"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

"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

"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 I do acting coaching with my clients remotely with @…, can I say I use defense grade security?
😝🎭
#acting #coaching

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

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

"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

"Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active."
-Michael Shurtleff
#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
#acting #coaching

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
-Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"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

"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 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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"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
#acting #coaching

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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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