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Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

— Morgan Freeman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.

— Sean Bean

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

— Rem Koolhaas

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

— Martin Freeman

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

— Tim Walker

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

— Christian Bale

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

— Zhang Ziyi

✗Opposing Perspectives

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

— Winston Churchill

I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.

— Sarah Gadon

The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.

— Juan Antonio Bayona

I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.

— Fatima Sana Shaikh