Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.
The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.
There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.
Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.
I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.
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