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“I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.”

Self Actors Stuff My Own Conscious Performances Self Conscious

“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.”

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Author:Charles Kimbrough

“... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.”

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Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske

“I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.”

Thinking Stills Self Actors Bits Doubters

Author:Kit Harington

“To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.”

World Self Action Actors Realizing Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.”

Should Trying Self Actors Easy Forever Like You Pride Self Love Who You Are Singularity Like Yourself

Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.”

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Author:Philip Roth

“Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.”

Self Hard Actors Tough Fellows Chicago

Author:Bill Murray

“Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.”

“Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.”

People Thinking Important Self Fall Actors Hurt Importance Colossal Self-importance

Author:Julia Sawalha

“I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.”

Self Actors Fun Struggle Journey Painful Having Fun Self Indulgent

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.”

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Author:John Goodman

“Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.”

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Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?”

Mind Self Actors Acting Absorption Self Absorption

Author:Maureen Lipman

“Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.”

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.”

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Author:Kurt Fuller

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