Post by Sirenna on Oct 1, 2007 15:49:32 GMT -5
Here are some quotes from TV.com:
Vincent: Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
Vincent: A lot of that stuff is misunderstood. I'm not gonna make excuses for other actors. I'm just talking about myself. The good actors that I've met – I've met some of the best actors that we'll ever see – and I know for sure the one thing that we all have in common when we all look in each other's eyes, is that we're all struggling to achieve 100 percent. That's all I see when I see another artist.
Vincent: Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience. Acting can't creep up on you from behind without you knowing. It can't. It's not a ghost, it can't suddenly embody you without your control. It's not that romantic, I'm telling you, it's a job, you know? You set out to do things [and] the harder you work, the more you gather, the more you have to throw away and the more you're left with that comes the part.
Vincent: The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
Vincent: People were a little nervous about Goren ... the way he speaks, the way he plays games with voice and posture. I approached the scenes without changing any of Rene's [producer Rene Balcer] words but would [physically] improvise with something that wasn't on the page. It made people nervous. Half the time they don't know what I'm going to do. But I do talk with Rene beforehand, so he knows what I'm going to do and how it'll track through the story."
Vincent: All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent: I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character. I know that during actual performance scenes, what I need to trigger myself off, and I know how to trigger it off so that it will trigger you off, which will also influence how you feel when I'm expressionless.
Vincent: When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor. (edit)
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Vincent: Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
Vincent: A lot of that stuff is misunderstood. I'm not gonna make excuses for other actors. I'm just talking about myself. The good actors that I've met – I've met some of the best actors that we'll ever see – and I know for sure the one thing that we all have in common when we all look in each other's eyes, is that we're all struggling to achieve 100 percent. That's all I see when I see another artist.
Vincent: Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience. Acting can't creep up on you from behind without you knowing. It can't. It's not a ghost, it can't suddenly embody you without your control. It's not that romantic, I'm telling you, it's a job, you know? You set out to do things [and] the harder you work, the more you gather, the more you have to throw away and the more you're left with that comes the part.
Vincent: The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
Vincent: People were a little nervous about Goren ... the way he speaks, the way he plays games with voice and posture. I approached the scenes without changing any of Rene's [producer Rene Balcer] words but would [physically] improvise with something that wasn't on the page. It made people nervous. Half the time they don't know what I'm going to do. But I do talk with Rene beforehand, so he knows what I'm going to do and how it'll track through the story."
Vincent: All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent: I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character. I know that during actual performance scenes, what I need to trigger myself off, and I know how to trigger it off so that it will trigger you off, which will also influence how you feel when I'm expressionless.
Vincent: When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor. (edit)
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