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Actors on Acting #9--Technique (Download Word version of #9)
© 2004 Hawk Storm
Buddhism and acting are alike. They both explore mind, emotions and how to use them.--Richard Gere
I use music in my preparation. I listen to all kinds depending on where I need to go.--
Benicio Del Toro
The actor has to go deep within himself to make a gift of his pain or whatever to the audience. Go into yourself and reveal it.--Gabriel Byrne
I am a part of every character I play. Every character must be based on an element of truth which is who you are. We all have instincts. We all have feelings and images. I write notes about the character and then throw them away and leave it to the moment.--
Johnny Depp
Get yourself in the position for the emotion instead of trying to force it and then leave yourself open.--Julianne Moore
Sense memory helps things flow.
Imagination gives you outlets into other areas. Acting is a real situation in imaginary circumstances. For your technique and process, go out and get as many things as possible to put into your little black bag.--
Ed Norton
Speilberg told Drew Barrymore in ET ,”You can’t act the character. You must be the character.”
I listen to music to reach the emotion.--Drew Barrymore
Rely on you intuition.--
Clint Eastwood
In acting, when you are swept away and are no longer you and you truly have become someone else, it is such a high. It is like a drug. You have to come back to experience it again.--
Bette Midler
Technique is how you help yourself out when you don’t know what to do or things aren’t working.--Laura Linney
Have a technique to go to work with. Knowing how to assess your character – whether by its voice, dress, body or emotion. To have a technique so you don’t just show up and do whatever you feel today.--
Angela Bassett
Technique is a safety net.--Sissy Spacek
My mantra when I am working is: Just be honest.
For me it’s just a feeling of being there in the moment and reacting, really – not trying to do anything and not trying to get any result. I mean, I can see that coming a mile away.--Denzel Washington
The exercises in acting school are offering you a way for you to see what works with your mechanism.--Ellen Burstyn
When you are inspired, you don’t do it, it does you.
When you are not inspired then you look to technique.--Ellen Burstyn
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