Comments on: Acting in Everyday Life

By: Dr. Howard Stein on Why Playwrights Must Experiment with the Audience | Panopticonic

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:14:57 +0000

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The Sean Hayes Newsweek Homophobic Slur « Urban Semiotic — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:11:37 +0000

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By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:27:43 +0000

That’s on target, Anne. We may not realize what terrific actors we really are without the proper training!

By: anne90210

anne90210 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:12:19 +0000

Def right. We are all actors but the training makes the difference.

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:47:15 +0000

Everyone thinks they know how to act — and on some level they do — but to be good, they must practice deception, self-abandonment and revelatory introspection and those are all difficult tasks to learn.

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:38:54 +0000

It always amuses me when people underestimate things as complicated as acting. “Oh acting is so simple, anyone can do it.” Give “The Dollhouse” a try, people who think it’s easy.