"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."

—Dennis Farina

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a brand new (to us) piece of text, and learning who the character was even on the ice cold reading (never read before) was inspiring. Some roles are clear instantly from the start, some require we do more homework to start finding them.

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"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."

—Stella Adler

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

—Bruce Lee

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Working with an #acting #coaching client on an emotionally pitched scene, and by making one physical change (for rehearsal's sake), we shifted the way they were speaking, and that revealed an emotional turn the character can make later in the scene because of it. Very cool discovery.

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"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."

—Meryl Streep

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"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

—Mikhail Baryshnikov

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"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."

—Henry Cavill

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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

—Spencer Tracy

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"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."

—Spencer Tracy

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