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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.

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
-James Dean
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
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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'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
-Michael Caine
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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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"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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"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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"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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Head down for a day of coaching, project planning - and a webinar at 1pm all about #coaching and #wellbeing. If you'd like to join (it's free!) here's the Zoom link:

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.
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"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
-Dennis Farina
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"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
-Sanford Meisner
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"I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
-Michael Caine
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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Working with an #acting #coaching client on some audition material, and they leaned into a certain intention. Suddenly, a whole new way to react to their own words cropped up. Half stumble, half discovery: a cool new way of going about things was revealed.

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.
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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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"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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"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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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
-Oscar Wilde
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"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
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"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
-Denzel Washington
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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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"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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

"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

"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

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
-Spencer Tracy
#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
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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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"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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"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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"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
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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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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
-Stella Adler
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"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

If I do acting coaching with my clients remotely with @…, can I say I use defense grade security?
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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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"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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"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
-Cate Blanchett
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"Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting."
-Rufus Sewell
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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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"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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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
-Thornton Wilder
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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
#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

"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 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
#acting #coaching

"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
-Sanford Meisner
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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

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

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

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

"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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"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
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"Comedy is acting out optimism."
-Robin Williams
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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 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 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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"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

"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

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.
#ActingCoach

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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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"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation."
-Bette Davis
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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
#acting #coaching #inspiration

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…