But the mother I would be was already inside me.
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I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation.Ask yourself: What is new? - Michael Shurtleff Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge. Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.Listening is being affected by what you hear. Creating relationship is the heart of acting.If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
Do you ever catch talents like Robert Duvall or Kathy Bates acting? No.