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“One of the real causes of an actor’s failure to cry is that the actor frequently tries to cry; he tries to play an emotion that a person in real life would almost always try to suppress or counteract. In real life, a stimulus makes you want to cry, and you try not to cry. As an actor you should do the same thing, for it is your struggle to keep from crying that makes an audience feel like crying”
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
“always choose to care about what is happening as much as you logically can within the context of the material.”
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
“Pushing for an emotion is a common acting mistake. The actor tries to tell the audience what he is feeling when he isn’t really feeling it, by generating the symptoms of the emotion with nothing real making them happen.”
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
“our obligation is, of course, to move an audience.”
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
“those things must be freed. If you can accept that you are all things—and you must if you are to call yourself an actor—then you must bring to the role those parts of yourself that are congruent with what is written, so that you work from yourself at all times, not from some imagined person whose skin you struggle to squeeze into. Don’t force the character on yourself; find the character in yourself”
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
― Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
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