Everything That Is Truly Worthwhile

When I'm Reading Material, If I'm A Little Bit Afraid Of A Part And I'm Willing To Admit That To Myself, Then I'll Do It, Definitely. If I'm Worried About Being Able To Do It, To Get It -i Absolutely Just Love It.

Part Of An Actor's Job Is To Actually Adopt The World-view Of The Character She Is Playing And To Tell The Story From That Vantage Point. If An Actor Represses Large Aspects Of Their Personality, They Will Have A Severely Limited Range And Castability. Great Actors Cultivate Effortless Access To Their Subpersonalities. Many Acting Teachers Call This 'freeing Your Instrument.'

My Career Has Been Full Of Remarkable Coincidences That Have Nothing To Do With Me.

Acting Doesn't Have Anything To Do With Listening To The Words. We Never Really Listen, In General Conversation, To What The Other Person Is Saying. We Listen To What They Mean. And What They Mean Is Often Quite Apart From The Words. When You See A Scene Between Two Actors That Goes Really Well You Can Be Sure They're Not Listening To Each Other - They're Feeling What The Other Person Is Trying To Get At. Know What I Mean?

It Can Be A Simple Sentence That Makes One Single Point And You Build For That. You Zero In On One Moment That Gets That Character, You Go For It, That's It, Man, And If You Fail The Whole Thing Is Down The Drain, But If You Make It You Hit The Moon.