Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
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A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
If an actor only comes alive when he has lines to say, it doesn't work, and the same goes for illustrated characters.
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.