essence

     presence

1. Actors picked for a part: not what they really are, not what they look like but what they appear like.
2. Best interested in the essence.
3. Essence of scene: (To show I'm in control and he is a follower), with emotion and objective.
4. Find the essence of an actor, go by what the story requires.
5. Finding out what is the essence.
6. How to find a scene. When watching a movie, watch for essence of what they are doing, that makes it real. Don't try and copy a scene.
7. Look for the quality of the man, the essence. Perceive what is quality of people being cast.
8. Look on forms of vases. Greek. Full of symbolism down to sculptures, paintings, from life, not street gestures. Each one has an attitude, figures, essence of the human figure, not a picture in bronze.
9. Modern tragedy: they don't have to look real, real in essence, any action is simple.
10. Perceive what is quality of people being cast. Essence you emanate. Look in the mirror. What is the essence? How have people always reacted to me.
11. Problem is: If I didn't hear dialogue, I wouldn't know what the scene is about. A deaf audience should understand. It's more than talking, not radio. What is essence of scene: Behavior. Visually it lacks things that are entertaining.
12. They don't have to look real, real in essence, any action is simple. Modern Tragedy.
13. We are not talking about what people really are, we are talking about what they seem to be.
14. When watching a movie, watch for essence of what they are doing, that makes it real. Don't try and copy.
15. Your talent will work, how advanced you are will show.

1. All comedy set-up: Some are the clown. The square is the identification of audience. Essence of all comedy: need to find the underlying basic joke throughout.

"In the end, it can't look like acting."