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The rows of benches resembled a gallery in a courtroom, hundreds of pairs of eyes burning the back of my head. Later this feeling became habitual, but then I felt it for the first time. Here it is, a unique torture for an actor - to have the undivided, desperate attention of the public and turn his back on it in shame.
- Why don't you just tell me what happened? No performances. No poetry.
I smile.
- For us, everything was a spectacle and poetry.
I smile.
- For us, everything was a spectacle and poetry.
How do they know that standing on stage and saying other people's words as their own is not so much an act of courage as a desperate leap towards mutual understanding? Trying to create a subtle connection between the speaker and the listener and convey something – essentially anything.
Actors are inherently changeable: alchemical creatures made up of flammable elements: emotion, ego, and envy. Heat them, mix them, and sometimes you get gold, and sometimes - a catastrophe.
The actor must take the comedy deadly seriously, otherwise it will not be funny to the viewer.
I'm afraid I'm more beautiful than talented or smart, and so no one will take me seriously. As an actress and as a person.
When we are on stage, we play a character, but only for fifty percent. The rest is ourselves, but we are afraid to show people what we really are. When I worked with Patsy Rodenberg, she taught us that Shakespeare's world is a world in which "passions are attractive." How often are we afraid of looking ridiculous and not showing the power of our emotions? But you cannot work well if you are afraid or in hiding.
Actors are like geodes. You have to break them to see what they are made of.
Everyone in this world is like that - blind, impulsive, selfish, not aware of what they want or what they should do. All just pathetic actors, stupid puppets!
The slight turn of her head contains the whole essence that Hollywood can not destroy. In the presence of this mystery, everything else that is secondary loses all significance.
Quote Explanation: About Greta Garbo.
The question that the actor often asks himself is: where would you go if you were not limited by the scope of this episode?
I am a beggar, a pitiful vagabond, and on stage I am a prince, I live his life, I am tormented by his thoughts, I weep with his tears over poor Ophelia and I love her as forty thousand brothers cannot love.
Tolerate lies about yourself is an integral part of the acting profession.
Actors are passionate about all kinds of power. And they can't help but love her! Only with a strong, lasting and monetary power is it possible for the theatrical art to flourish.
- I'm suspending you from filming!
- A break won't hurt me.
- No salary!
- I'll interrupt.
- Thousands like Marilyn Monroe come here every day!
- No, thousands of people like Norma Jean are coming.
- A break won't hurt me.
- No salary!
- I'll interrupt.
- Thousands like Marilyn Monroe come here every day!
- No, thousands of people like Norma Jean are coming.
