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An Actor Prepares (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as acting)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,141 ratings — published 1936
Respect for Acting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as acting)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,485 ratings — published 1973
Sanford Meisner on Acting (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as acting)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,191 ratings — published 1987
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as acting)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,017 ratings — published 1978
The Art of Acting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as acting)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,517 ratings — published 2000
To the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as acting)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,031 ratings — published 1953
The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as acting)
avg rating 4.48 — 758 ratings — published 2004
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as acting)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,878 ratings — published 1989
Building A Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as acting)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,322 ratings — published 1949
The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as acting)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,464 ratings — published 2017
The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique -- The 12-Step Acting Technique That Will Take You from Script to a Living, Breathing, Dynamic Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as acting)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,023 ratings — published 2004
The Actor and the Target (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as acting)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,079 ratings — published 2000
Creating A Role (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as acting)
avg rating 4.12 — 620 ratings — published 2013
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as acting)
avg rating 4.37 — 756 ratings — published 2003
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as acting)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,656 ratings — published 1997
A Challenge For The Actor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as acting)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,031 ratings — published 1991
The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as acting)
avg rating 4.50 — 897 ratings — published 2008
A Practical Handbook for the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as acting)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,390 ratings — published 1986
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as acting)
avg rating 4.27 — 710 ratings — published 1963
Acting: The First Six Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as acting)
avg rating 4.06 — 933 ratings — published 1933
How to Stop Acting: A Renowned Acting Coach Shares His Revolutionary Approach to Landing Roles, Developing Them and Keeping them Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as acting)
avg rating 4.27 — 550 ratings — published 2003
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as acting)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,919 ratings — published 1979
The Technique of Acting (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as acting)
avg rating 4.15 — 268 ratings — published 1988
A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as acting)
avg rating 3.93 — 450 ratings — published 1987
An Actor's Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as acting)
avg rating 4.25 — 334 ratings — published 1938
Freeing the Natural Voice (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as acting)
avg rating 4.13 — 673 ratings — published 1976
The Empty Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as acting)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,863 ratings — published 1968
Acting for the Camera (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as acting)
avg rating 4.04 — 441 ratings — published 1986
Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to (Show) Business
by (shelved 43 times as acting)
avg rating 4.39 — 280 ratings — published 2003
No Acting Please: A Revolutionary Approach to Acting and Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as acting)
avg rating 4.09 — 337 ratings — published 1979
The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as acting)
avg rating 3.89 — 445 ratings — published 1965
Acting as a Business: Strategies for Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as acting)
avg rating 4.19 — 159 ratings — published 1993
My Life in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as acting)
avg rating 4.20 — 560 ratings — published 1924
Secrets of Screen Acting (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as acting)
avg rating 4.31 — 170 ratings — published 1993
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as acting)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,434,862 ratings — published 2022
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as acting)
avg rating 4.27 — 966 ratings — published 2022
The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as acting)
avg rating 4.60 — 196 ratings — published 2014
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as acting)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,399 ratings — published 2002
Voice and the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as acting)
avg rating 4.06 — 285 ratings — published 1974
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as acting)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,448 ratings — published 1994
The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as acting)
avg rating 4.17 — 161 ratings — published 1997
Towards a Poor Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as acting)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,480 ratings — published 1968
A Life in Parts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as acting)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,280 ratings — published 2016
The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as acting)
avg rating 4.08 — 295 ratings — published 1992
The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as acting)
avg rating 4.27 — 663 ratings — published 2004
Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as acting)
avg rating 4.33 — 160 ratings — published 2008
The Invisible Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as acting)
avg rating 4.30 — 416 ratings — published 1953
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as acting)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,937 ratings — published 1996
Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide (Methuen Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as acting)
avg rating 4.39 — 621 ratings — published 1984
The Lee Strasberg Notes (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as acting)
avg rating 4.26 — 117 ratings — published 2010
“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
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“Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O Never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.”
― In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O Never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.”
― In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
