The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.
With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.