Category: acting and actors...

• acting, the ability to react to imaginary stimuli, has been described as an extreme sensibility and a profound intelligence.
• the actor is forever carving a statue of snow (Lawrence Barrett, 19th century)
• the actor is at once the piano and the pianist
• in acting, the famous paradox described by Diderot is that in order to move the audience the actor himself must remain unmoved
• actors often experience those flashes of intuition or inspiration that stimulate the imagination and turn something that one understands with the mind into an emotional reality and experience
• The actor can be called an athlete of the heart
• The more an actor learns to master concentration, the more aware he becomes
• The beats are the smallest units of dramatic action into which each role may be divided
• Charlie Chaplin ranks as one of the greatest actors of all time in any medium
• using pantomimes to dramatize specific physical actions, which also require imagination on the part of the actor; the size, shape, texture, and temperature of imaginary properties must be realized and projected
• improvisation really tests an actor's imagination - choose one action, one character, and one location - and create an improvised scene
• every actor must make his/her voice adequate to the demands placed on it in any given role; articulation exercises focus on problems frequently found and the demands on vocal resources including variety, phrasing, emphasis, and dramatic pointing
• what one is striving for is scintillating and seemingly effortless delivery
• the lingo and slang of the theater and film, like: best boy, clapper/loader, dolly grip, Foley editor, gaffer, catwalk, flats, flies, Fresnel lights, gobo, props, scrim, and wings
• Hamlet's soliloquy

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