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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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Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
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That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.
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You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.
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The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.
James Baldwin
Sanford Meisner
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Born:
August 31, 1905
Died:
February 2, 1997
(aged 91)
Bio:
Sanford Meisner, also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique.
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