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Actors on Acting #8--Technique (Download Word version of #8)
© 2004 Hawk Storm
The Method is a method not the method.
Acting is living really in imaginary circumstances.--Ellen Burstyn
Don’t
be ashamed of your emotions. They don’t make you weak. They make you strong.--Faye Dunnaway
Tom Cruise once said of Brad Pitt that he needed no technique because his emotions were so close
to the surface.
Christina Ricci has had no professional training. She relies on her instincts. She believes that when people start to train as actors
it’s because their surroundings have squashed a lot of their instincts. Training starts to bring out all this stuff that’s been repressed; whereas if you start as a child, your instincts remain on top.
Gary Sinese also had no formal training.
If the heart is not beating then the brain is not working. I work from the gut.--Gary Sinese
Training schools make us explore more aspects of ourselves.--
James Woods
Lee Strasberg tried to dislodge the actor’s armor of conventional behavior and defenses. He stressed relaxation, commitment to an emotion or impulse and concentration.
In
preparation I tried all methods but it became too hard and it shouldn’t be that hard. Now I’ve gotten to the point where I am freer and can get there quickly because it’s fun.--Kim Bassinger
Technique is all about getting closer to who you are.
Sensory work helps bring you closer to who you are.--Phillip Seymore Hoffman
The purpose of technique is to free the actor.--Stanislavsky
The key to acting is to apply your inner life to the circumstances of the character.--
Mary Stuart Masterson
I do sensory work. Sound and smell are big with me, the smell of a lake and the sound of a slamming screen door. Do sensory exercises and use you heart and imagination.--
Jessica Lange
Every artist has to find his or her own personal method.--Antonio Banderas
My technique is not the same each time.--Val Kilmer
Even today I use affective memory as preparation to get at emotions like pain.--
Gene Hackman
My process is different each time. I do keep a journal on the character.--Helen Hunt
To get there I am open to God and get out of my head and open my soul to
vibrate with higher forces.--Gwyneth Paltrow
There is something definitely feminine about acting.--Ethan Hawke
An actor must be in touch with his feminine side.--
Gene Hackman
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