I hear it a lot "Actors are good liars!" "Be careful, he's/she's an actor.They're trained to lie."
I don't think acting makes you a better liar or a trained one. But I do think that acting makes you better at connecting with truths. That's what you want to express in your work, the truths within the lies, to show the flame and fuel causing all the smoke. #storytelling #film #theatre #acting
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I agree! I've been acting my whole life and get "yep, she's an actress" a lot. But in the end, it makes me a more genuine person, and probably more genuine than the people that are making that statement. I have a sensitivity to people and connections I have, tons of life experience, and crazy empathy for those underrepresented so I feel it's maybe my ability to see more that makes me a good actress compared to lying. I honestly don't believe in lying, in my personal or professional life.
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Yes, acting has helped me to be more open and sensitive to what is around me.
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To be an actor you have to EMPATHISE with people and with a broad spectrum of emotions, aswell as many other human foibles being in the mix. I once threw a glass of champagne over someone when they said I could easily lie cos I had a Gold for acting LAMDA. The opposite was true, cos I felt that the “system” was a lie, and tried to find the truth through Art. LOL Was a while back in the early 90’s a few people got soaked with drink after insulting me.
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I understand why people think that but in acting you have to be skilled at telling the truth. Building that truth within you and making it true to others. Yes we are saying lines but they are true for that character and that circumstance.
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David Mamet says that the story is the move from the Lie to the Truth. Actors are the primary agents of that, as the mediators between the script and the audience. I always have made it my personal policy to leave the pretending on the page/stage/set and live as Authentically and honestly as a person as I can.