I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.
Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.
That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.
I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.
Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.
That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.
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