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by
Larry Moss
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January 4 - May 30, 2019
Well-filmed stories don’t have empty
moments.
If you’re not prepared, if you don’t have some choices from your homework that excite you and you expect the director to
give you juicy and creative ideas and they don’t have them, you’re in big trouble. A director is not an acting teacher or a
coach, and beginning actors need to know this right away. In the theater, their job is to put the p...
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film or television to get it in the can under certain time and b...
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only you can discover your personal reason to play the part—
If you are there to bring out an aspect of a major character by interacting
with them, know precisely what you’re bringing out—and actively go after it.
When the director isn’t helpful, go back to the text, go back to your technique, and go back to the trusted friends who can help you.
Chance Wayne’s
monologues from Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth.
I read Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein
concept of the negative introject.
it takes more courage to be positive.”
If you are negative, you can never be disappointed
if something doesn’t ...
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actor who destroyed the kitchen table in A Hatful of Rain? Weren’t they saying yes?
The difference is that these actors hadn’t done their homework and they didn’t fully understand the plays they were in.
Their impulses came from ignorance and self-inflation rather than from creative inspir...
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character interpretation and living in the given circumst...
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If you’ve done all the homework you can,
and you’re fully invested in the given circumstances and in your objectives, and you’re truly acting moment to
moment with the other actors, your impulses at each moment are going to b...
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The Owl and the Pussycat by Bill Manhoff
trapped in a prison she had created
No actor should ever play a racial stereotype. The word stereotype implies generality and a lack of human
specificity, and as I’ve said, acting is all about specificity. Even if a character as written seems stereotypical or clichéd,
it’s your job to make sure t...
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trained to ask this magical ‘what if.’
The Syringa Tree,
Eugene O’Neill’s
Long Day’s Journey into
N...
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Moon for the Misb...
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The Iceman ...
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Story exercise.
Alice in Wonderland, written by
Elizabeth Swados, at The Public Theater.
An actor is only as great as the parts they get to play.
Stella Adler taught me: find out what you do well, and do it like Hercules.
Elia Kazan’s
wonderful autobiography, A Life,
Real growing artists are excited by and open to new ideas.
art, like life, is about
ascension.
As you gain experience, if you are honest with yourself, you will be able to gauge your own
progress in reaching your goals in each performance and in each year that you live.
Schisgal’s play All Over Town. Schisgal was the brilliant writer of one of my favorite comedies, Luv,
They can’t make me go on if I’m dead.
