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

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.

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.

Working with an #acting #coaching client we tried out some new, specific physicality for the character. Next take had a whole way of moving I hadn't seen them do before. I had to stop just being a happy coach and remind myself to read the other role. So cool.

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.

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.
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"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
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"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
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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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"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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"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
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"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
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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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"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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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.

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

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

"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 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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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.

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

"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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"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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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.

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

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
—Cate Blanchett
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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

"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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"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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"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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"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

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
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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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"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
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"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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"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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"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
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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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"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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"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 a new #acting #coaching client, had them do 2 takes with the same goal, but a different attitude/assumption about the other character. Discovered the primary tension totally shifted. We get to build and place that discovered tension as we want now.

"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

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

"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 …

"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

"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

"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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Got into some new material with an #acting #coaching client. They started finding, right off the bat, the character's incredulity in and among the uncertainty between them and the other character. Good discoveries, looking forward to building them out.

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

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

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

"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

Had an #acting #coaching client try to tell the other character they loved them, but using lines as written, on the face of them, do not mention love. That take revealed the fear their character was feeling, made the peril more real. Revelation through counterpoint.

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on some material and played with Bogart's Viewpoints of Tempo and Duration. Beautiful seeing them finding new ways of being and new things to pursue in their character. Opened up a whole inner life.

"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 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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"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
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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
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"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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"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
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"Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best."
—Nathan Fillion
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Played with energy level during a scene with an #acting #coaching client, and we found a layer, or well, or source of anger within it. And that highlighted how the characters still care about each other and hold each other close, even in anger. Good discoveries.

"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

"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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"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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"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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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on different perspectives in a scene and then did a take with the character kind of optimistic as the scene unfolded. It set up the next scene's drama, and held space for inner reactions to poke out in a great balance.

"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

"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

Working a new piece with an #acting #coaching client and choosing between #translations. They're very different in tone, and neither a perfect (that doesn't really exist) mimic of the origi…

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

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov
#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

"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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"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 know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
—Cate Blanchett
#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

"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 …

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

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

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