When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
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Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
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I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.
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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
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But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.
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The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
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One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
quote by Bernard Baruch
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You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
quote by Charles Keating
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There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
quote by Goldwin Smith
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I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
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I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.
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An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
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