If You Think It's Hard To Meet

How Do You Know That God Didn't Speak To Charles Darwin?

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

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.'

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's Hard Enough To Write A Good Drama, It's Much Harder To Write A Good Comedy, And It's Hardest Of All To Write A Drama With Comedy. Which Is What Life Is.