A Quote by Van Heflin

I try to acquire some new approach with each role in order to build up a varied acting technique.

Van Heflin

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Van Heflin

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

John Garfield

There's an awful lot to be desired. I've gone to places where people say to me, "What's your technique?" Technique? What the hell technique is there to acting? We're acting because even with my voice I'm giving what I think is what I want to say.

Ernest Borgnine

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Virginia Woolf

I try to show good technique - boxing technique, wrestling technique, jiu jitsu technique.

Andrei Arlovski

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

David Cronenberg

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

Jane Lynch

I am capable of batting at No. 4, from where I can build an innings. I have performed the role in the past. I have also been coming later down the order and donned the role of a finisher.

Dinesh Karthik

It's really up to the acting community to be willing to be educated about what performance capture is in order to fully appreciate it as acting. It's not a type of acting, but rather the use of technology to harness an actor's performance and translate it into an ape, another animal, or an avatar of some kind.

Andy Serkis

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Ethel Waters

G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

Ralph Fletcher

You can't have cutthroat competition when there's no one stopping you from actually cutting each other's throats. In order to build up trust we also have to think about each other's needs and it creates an entirely different dynamic.

David Graeber

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try