Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
Interpretation
Acting is a form of entertainment that aims to evoke emotions, despite the vulnerability it entails.
Eddie Redmayne's quote highlights the essence of acting as a profession that transcends the technicalities of other fields, like surgery. While it aims to entertain and evoke genuine emotions in people, actors must embrace their vulnerability as they strive to authentically portray the complexities of human behavior.
In practice
During a theater workshop, an instructor might quote this to remind actors of the emotional connection required in performance.
I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.
I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
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