A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.
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As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
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.
If an actor only comes alive when he has lines to say, it doesn't work, and the same goes for illustrated characters.
An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
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.
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.
In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
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