Acting


An Actor Prepares
Sanford Meisner on Acting
Respect for Acting
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
The Art of Acting
To the Actor
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making
The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
Building A Character
The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide
The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique -- The 12-Step Acting Technique That Will Take You from Script to a Living, Breathing, Dynamic Character
The Actor and the Target
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidChanneling Marilyn by Mima TipperSimon vs The Homosapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliJust One Year by Gayle FormanStage Whispers by Adam Fitzroy
Fiction About Theatre And Acting
30 books — 13 voters
The Unidentified Redhead by Alice ClaytonOnly You by Lorna PeelAct Like It by Lucy  ParkerMarried Blind by Morgana BevanHeart Journey by Robin D. Owens
Actor Heroes in Romance
93 books — 23 voters

The Tragic Death by Lewis J.A. CorbettClinically Un-Depressed by Will HolcombThe Puzzler by Will HolcombBarefoot in the Park by Neil SimonOur Town by Thornton Wilder
Plays For Local Theatre
31 books — 18 voters


Anne Carson
Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you--may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mod ...more
Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Tom Hiddleston
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. ...more
Tom Hiddleston

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