Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
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Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
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!
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.