Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don't.
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.
That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.