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“I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.”

Years School Used Acting Couple Involved Exercise

Author:Barry Levinson

“That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.”

Thinking Acting Comedy Exercise Committed Worried Best Comedy

Author:Will Ferrell

“Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.”

Heart Kind Soul Bits Acting Exercise Heart And Soul

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.”

Eye Fall Acting Behinds Exercise Sat Backwards Behind You Fall Back

Author:Morgan Freeman

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”

Real Action Individual Force Effort Acting Exercise Spring Energetic Spurs Real Freedom

Author:Anna Brackett

“A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.”

Ifs Way Reason Acting Exercise Tests Clown

Author:Matthew Lillard

“All of the great leaders down through history have told us we become what we think about. In fact, they have been in complete and unanimous agreement on this point while they disagree on almost every other point. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people rarely think, they simply accept what they see or hear. The next time someone gives you a suggestion, rather than simply accepting and acting on the suggestion - THINK - exercise your reasoning factor. Ask yourself if the suggestion will improve the quality of your life.”

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Author:Bob Proctor

“I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.”

People Thinking Fall Acting Exercise Camps Great Exercise

Author:Kerry Bishe

“Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.”

Sometimes Certain Force Acting Personality Exercise Muscles Really Cool

Author:Jenna Fischer

“Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business. You don't get to pull all those triggers at the same time doing anything else. Nothing pulls that from you. Dancing, acting and singing is like "Alright, I gotta fire on all cylinders right now" because that's what it requires. It's fun getting to exercise all those muscles.”

Fun Acting Fire Exercise Right Now Singing Dancing Musical Muscles Good Times Triggers Alright Movie Business Cylinders

Author:Queen Latifah

“The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.”

Art Action Actors Force Perfect Acting Environment Focus Cutting Exercise Logic Fellows Surprise Dependent Parallels Thrilling

Author:Ben Kingsley

“When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.”

“I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.”

Two Able School Acting Months Exercise Directors Workshops

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.”

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Author:Rhea Seehorn

“I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it's really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with nothing but green screen that's got to be pretty difficult.”

Thinking Giving Two Different Real Whole Bits Difficult Imagination Space Acting Exercise Green Screens Stuck Silly Different Things Imaginative

Author:John Hurt

“Palestine is about how we drink the water, whether we are being ecological or not. Palestine is our way of exercising our daily living. That's what's going to solve the problem of Palestine. It's also how we think of ourselves spiritually. This kind of disconnectedness is harmful to the person who is acting that way and is sometimes annoying.”

Thinking Way Kind Persons Sometimes Problem Water Acting Exercise Drink Solve Annoying Palestine Ecological Daily Living Disconnectedness

Author:Elia Suleiman

“I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.”

People Book Acting Personality Exercise Mining

Author:Peter O'Toole

“I love performing. I love doing improv. It's a totally terrifying experience, but it's something that I've always felt so strongly about and that I'm kind of obsessed with. And just as an actor, it's a great exercise. It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on your skills. Because the mandate of improv is kind of the same as acting: It's all about your scene partner, it's all about being present and in the moment and exploring together as a team, a collaboration.”

Trying Kind Moments Together Acting Team Exercise Scene Performing Obsessed Collaboration Exploring

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in exercising his vision was almost an acting exercise: How would I write if I were Paul? When I look at it, it feels so completely his, but it's also mine.”

Writing Acting Vision Exercise

Author:Zoe Kazan

“My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to. Some people just aren't supposed to be in a room together, and you have to be in a room with a group of people who might not all get along and you have to figure out how to come together for one thing. That collaboration is special, and people don't get to exercise that. I think that's why people become stubborn, and I think that's why people become uninspired to change. In this job you have to.”

People Thinking Trying Together Acting Special Exercise My Favorite Collaboration Stubborn

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“In my acting class there was this acting exercise going on, and I remember asking a buddy, "Do you ever do this at your apartment when no one's home? Do you ever act out these hypothetical moments?" And he goes, "No, Lizzie, because that's called crazy." Whatever, I was 20 and doing it so who cares.”

Moments Home Care Remember Acting Crazy Exercise Apartment Buddy Hypothetical

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.”

Thinking Kind Reality Imagination Acting Exercise Breathe Willingness

Author:Walton Goggins

“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.”

Trying Reality Certain Acting Figures Emotional Exercise Empathy Confused

Author:Edward Norton

“I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.”

Acting Exercise My Friends Funeral Funny Friendship

Book:Everyone's Mark Twain

Source: Everyone's Mark Twain

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

Inspiration Happens Action Moving Powerful Acting Exercise Physics Nothingness Inertia

Author:Albert Einstein

“Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.”

Source: The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved

“Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.”

Real Games Acting Exercise Being Real

Author:Sidney Poitier

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