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Actors on Acting

Over the years, some of the world’s most successful actors have shared their insights and advice on acting and their careers.
In this category, you’ll find articles on actors who share their thoughts on a wide range of acting topics, including:

  • What it means to be an actor
  • Different approaches to acting
  • How to prepare for a role
  • How to work with directors and other actors
  • How to deal with rejection and failure
  • And much more!

Whether you’re just starting out or a working actor, there is something for everyone in this category.

2-Minute Master Class on Acting: Watch Sir Patrick Stewart Demonstrate the Rarely Used ‘Quadruple Take’

I love everything about this video. Sir Patrick Stewart, sitting across from his barefooted fiancee’ Sunny Ozell, gives his betrothed (and us) a master class in the “rarely used” comedy device, the ‘quadruple take’. But before we get there, he goes through the ‘take’, the ‘double take’ and the ‘triple

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Mary-Louise Parker is Not Quitting Acting. She’s Starring in Manhattan Theatre Club’s ‘The Snow Geese’

Despite a recent interview where she claimed she would be quitting acting, Mary-Louise Parker insists she’s not going anywhere. “That was born out of a conversation where I was asked if I had long-term goals, and it became like I was embittered,” she said in an interview with New York

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Tom Hiddleston on Why He’s Doing Shakespeare after ‘The Avengers’: “The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love”

The next time audiences will see Tom Hiddleston won’t be as the nefarious Loki in Thor: The Dark World, but doing something closer to his heart — PBS’s Great Performances: The Hollow Crown miniseries.  The Hollow Crown is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and 2

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‘Soul Doctor’ Star Amber Iman Slept on a Dressing Room Cot and Couch Surfed Before Making Her Broadway Dreams Come True

When artists say they will do what it takes to get the job, most actors are talking about being prepared in that audition room. For one Broadway star though, it meant leaving home, couch surfing and a bout of homelessness. Amber Iman just made her Broadway debut playing legendary jazz

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Dean Norris Talks Filming ‘Breaking Bad’ and Calling Bryan Cranston If He Has “Any Professional Choices to Make”

Breaking Bad returned last Sunday with a jaw-dropping episode, “Blood Money.”  The first in the last eight episodes of the series was directed by star Bryan Cranston.  Dean Norris, who plays DEA agent Hank Schrader, describes filming the intense final scene of the episode. “The last scene was really interesting. 

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