Jason Bennett Actors' Studio

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Accepting your dreams is the only path to anything real. #sharedreamsAccepting your dreams is the only path to anything real. #sharedreams

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Accepting your dreams is the only path to anything real. #sharedreamsAccepting your dreams is the only path to anything real. #sharedreams

Being a performer is an act towards consciousness and of rebelliousness. "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." - George Orwell, 1984

Wise Quotes for Actors

This is an incredibly balanced, brilliant lecture by a controversial, brilliant Archetypal psychologist that has major help in it for actors...and for living...listen twice. Before you read the trash talk about him in the media. Wise Master Teacher.

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Change your movement, it can change your mind. Change your voice, you can discover a new person. Study an animal for two hours, it can be the basis of a character IF YOU LEARN THE PROCESS for translating animals OR people into UNIQUE characterizations. This tool is called EXTERNALS, and it is a tool required if you ever want to be known as a Master Performer. It requires study...lots of it...

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -Carl Jung

The old-fashioned view of things, in many acting methods, is that there is a giant wall between your personal "truth" and memories and your "imagination." Modern psychologists will tell you it is false to think this giant separation exists. Memories are often not accurate and are totally subjective -- with a high level of fantasy contained in them. And your imagination is not "fake" or "not real." In fact, your fantasy life virtually determines all the actions you take duri...ng the day! Amazing, huh? For example, my fantasy of winning an Academy-award may cause me to go to the gym, take an acting class, go to auditions, etc. So, while it gets useful results to coach some actors to be "simple, truthful and real," there is a more sophisticated approach...

Have you noticed the energy of NYC feels different than hiking in the mountains? And different than being in a church and different than being in a desert? Atmospheres...they are real. Learning to create atmospheres is vital to being a great performer! The castings directors, the audience...they can feel it...