Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
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Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.
I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
Roles make the actor.
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.