You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll … - Sanford Meisner

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Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.

Sanford Meisner

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

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Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

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Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

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Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

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If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

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Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

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