"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."

-Sanford Meisner

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."

-Tim Curry

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."

-Johnny Depp

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."

-Dennis Farina

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."

-Tim Curry

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."

-Dennis Farina

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Acting #coaching client in live performance found new reasons to playfully make the character/s work, and I'm thrilled they leaned into overwrought emotions of a scene in really cool ways. Very satisfying to have their work work.

#Acting #coaching client in live performance found new reasons to playfully make the character/s work, and I'm thrilled they leaned into overwrought emotions of a scene in really cool ways. Very satisfying to have their work work. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actor #actors #coach

"I think the process of making anything is going as far afield as you can and then reconnecting to the original impulse. That’s the gig."

—Lin-Manuel Miranda

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."

-Judi Dench

"It’s tough, acting. you have to walk two lines of a tightrope. there’s the all consuming fear of failure… and there’s also confidence – you have to be confident to try new things – And they fight each other all the time."

-Jessica Chastain

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."

-Willem Dafoe

Working with an #acting #coaching client on a scene and their performance revealed an alternate, deeper, tragic way the character they’re talking with responds to them. So great feeling that depth open up.

Working with an #acting #coaching client on a scene and their performance revealed an alternate, deeper, tragic way the character their talking with responds to them. So great feeling that depth open up. #ActingCoaching #ActingCoach #actor #coach #character #pathos

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."

-Judi Dench

"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."

-Tom Cruise

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."

-Judi Dench

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."

-Annette Bening