We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.
Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.
We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.
What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.
We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
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