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Actors will say, 'my character wouldn't say that.' who said it was your character?
-James Gandolfini
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Actors Will Say, 'my Character Wouldn't Say

James Gandolfini
Actors will say, 'my character wouldn't say that.' who said it was your character?
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The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. no one tries to laugh except bad actors. no one tries to cry except bad actors. how a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. i know how the scene is going to end before it ends.
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You work with every actor differently. it's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. other children you back off of a little bit and let them be. it's the same way with actors. some actors need a lot of hand holding. other actors like to be let be and you let them go. some actors like to be nudged just a little bit. some actors don't mind line readings.
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I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and i always think it's crap. anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. you can't not do both.
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I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ if more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. the good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. any script is enough of a lie anyway. (what experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? killing someone?) what’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.
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"when you wake up in the morning, pooh," said piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "what's for breakfast?" said pooh. "what do you say, piglet?" "i say, i wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said piglet . pooh nodded thoughtfully. "it's the same thing," he said. "what's that?" the unbeliever asked. "wisdom from the western taoist,"i said. "it sounds like something from winnie-the-pooh," he said. "it is," i said. "that's not about taoism," he said. "oh, yes it is," i said.
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Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. so that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. in that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. they become essential collaborators. the main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.
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