Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.
When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.