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The Great Acting Blog: “What Do You Stand For?”

23.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

What do you stand for? Or what do you want to stand for? And how do you come to stand for it? When people look at you or your work, what does it mean to them? What do they associate with it? When I look at...

The Great Acting Blog: “In Case You Were Thinking Of Quitting….”

06.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

.... Here's five statements on perseverance, on sticking with it, from five mighty artists who reached the very pinnacle of their profession. None of us is perfect, everyone struggles, all we can do is keep learning, keep improving and do our best. "The world breaks everyone and...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need A Good Name”

24.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

"Build a good name — because a name is not to get famous. He wasn’t talking about celebrity — he was talking about let your name radiate your self, magnify who you are, your good deeds, your code of honor. Build your name and as you go...

The Great Acting Blog: “Five Great Actors On Acting”

09.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 9 Comments

These quotes don't offer any easy inspiration but there is a truth in them, even if that truth is sometimes opaque or requires thinking about over time. What they allow us to infer is important, for example, Delon appears to be saying something personal, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Reason For Jack Nicholson’s Career Longevity”

10.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 25 Comments

Inevitably, Jack Nicholson's retirement has created a deluge of responses in the press. One in The Observer piqued me in particular, especially a comment it made about him which I've pasted below: - "the actor is not disappearing into his work so much as using his...

The Great Acting Blog: “Jack Nicholson’s Retirement”

05.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

"When I watch my own work, I'm always watching him, I'm never watching me. That separation is a part of the trade as well". - Jack Nicholson When Jack Nicholson announced he was retiring from acting, I was completely bowled over. The strength of my response...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Are You Trying To Achieve?”

05.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 45 Comments

Somebody said we should measure improvement by the increase in volume of work we put out - ergo, if our volume is getting less and less then we are declining. Others have said that they don't measure improvement at all, that for them, acting isn't...

The Great Acting Blog: “Make Choices You Enjoy – John Malkovich In Colour Me Kubrick”

18.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 46 Comments

Malkovich is one of those American actors who is regarded as a real actor, which is to say, he actually can act, he's an artist, he's in it because he wants to be a great actor, or make a great contribution, he's certainly an actor...

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