It's Not Enough To Have

You Have To Get Beyond Your Own Precious Inner Experiences. The Actor Cannot Afford To Look Only To His Own Life For All His Material Nor Pull Strictly From His Own Experience To Find His Acting Choices And Feelings. The Ideas Of The Great Playwrights Are Almost Always Larger Than The Experiences Of Even The Best Actors.

The Imagination Is Closer To The Actor Than Real Life-more Agreeable, More Comfortable.

When An Acting Teacher Tells A Student 'that Wasn't Honest Work' Or 'that Didn't Seem Real,' What Does This Mean? In Life, We Are Rarely 'truthful' Or 'honest' Or 'real'. And Characters In Plays Are Almost Never 'truthful' Or 'honest' Or 'real'. What Exactly Do Teachers Even Mean By These Words? A More Useful Question Is: What Is The Story The Actor Was Telling In Their Work? An Actor Is Always Telling A Story. We All Are Telling Stories, All The Time. Story: That Is What It Is All About.

The Word Theatre Comes From The Greeks. It Means The Seeing Place.

Be Innocent, Wise And Ninety-five.