Rob Morrow's Bookshelf
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Sanford Meisner on Acting
By Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
When I started acting, I didn't quite get it: I thought you had "it" or you didn't. A year or so after I'd dropped out of high school, my mother came to see me in some ghastly off-off Broadway play. She said that if I was going to be an actor, I should study. It was a criticism, yes, but it was said in a supportive way. I took a lot of classes and didn't do very well—I was scared and very resistant to working hard. Reading this book was an epiphany. Meisner taught a method he called the magic "as if." The gist of it is figuring out how I—Rob Morrow—connect emotionally to the story I'm acting. Using the technique, I stopped just saying words and doing gestures and started to try to inhabit roles. It helped me fall in love with the art of acting.
By Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
When I started acting, I didn't quite get it: I thought you had "it" or you didn't. A year or so after I'd dropped out of high school, my mother came to see me in some ghastly off-off Broadway play. She said that if I was going to be an actor, I should study. It was a criticism, yes, but it was said in a supportive way. I took a lot of classes and didn't do very well—I was scared and very resistant to working hard. Reading this book was an epiphany. Meisner taught a method he called the magic "as if." The gist of it is figuring out how I—Rob Morrow—connect emotionally to the story I'm acting. Using the technique, I stopped just saying words and doing gestures and started to try to inhabit roles. It helped me fall in love with the art of acting.
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