Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
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