Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
Actors are inherently self-centered.
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.
Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.
You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.