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"There
is no such thing as a born actor, except in the pages of fiction.
Acting like any other creative art is so much craft. An actor
needs to learn how to breath, how to move, how to use his voice
and how to relax. An actor requires the training of an athlete
only to be told that his goal is not the winning of a hundred
meters race.
Even after he has gone through all the exercises that drama
schools stipulate, he needs to have the experience of putting
everything together in front of an audience.
I believe that would-be actors and actresses should be made
aware of all the different schools of acting. They can then
choose which approach best suits their temperament.
An actor and a singer have the same instrument; his voice; but
there is a difference between training the voice for singing
and training it for acting. For singing you convey through the
particular discipline of sound so that the energy is in the
resonance. For the actor it is the word that must impinge. But
the actor must not sing the word……"
Extract from a lecture by Zia Mohyeddin.
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