You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
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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.
I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.
When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'
Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.
It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
The big secret in acting is listening to people.
The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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