Pursuing excellence in acting – Ellen Burstyn: “The quality of acting gets lowered.”
In a recent interview for Reuters news, Ellen Burstyn commented, “Acting? I think it needs some help. TV has lowered the bar. With quicker schedules everything is rushed, so the quality gets lowered.”
Burstyn won the Best Actress Academy Award for 1974′s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and has a total of six Oscar nominations, seven Golden Globe nominations, a Tony award and an Emmy nomination. She was the first female president of Actors Equity and is co-president, with Harvey Keitel and Al Pacino, of the Actors Studio.
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Her new memoir is Lessons in Becoming Myself [BOOK] [AUDIO CD] is described as a “journey to self-awareness.” She has found “If you want to know who you truly are, the answer won’t be found in the outer world; you must go inside and see where your instincts lead you.”
For additional perspectives on pursuing excellence as an actor, see the pages:
acting
acting : teen/young adult
Also see the page: intuition / instinct
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