In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.
Interpretation
An actor's true resources lie in their imagination and teamwork rather than physical props.
This quote emphasizes that in the art of acting, the most valuable tools an actor possesses are their imagination, the guidance of their director, and the collaborative efforts of fellow actors. In the intimate and confined environment of a rehearsal space, it is these mental and social resources that allow actors to create believable and compelling performances, rather than relying solely on external materials or settings.
In practice
In a workshop for aspiring actors, this quote can encourage them to focus on their imaginative capabilities.
There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they have no support from their family or they live in a part of the world, maybe they've never heard a piano or seen a piano.
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.
It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
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