Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.
What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.
You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.
If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.