If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of authenticity and instinct in acting over rote memorization.
Olivia Colman reflects on her approach to acting, suggesting that a well-written script contains all the necessary elements for a performance. She expresses her preference for embodying the character honestly rather than merely memorizing lines for auditions, which she feels compromises the authenticity of the portrayal. Her method may not align with traditional expectations, but it has proven effective for her career.
In practice
During an acting workshop, this quote can be shared to inspire students to trust their instincts.
When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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