ACTOR AS METAPHOR
          Our love of actors has to do with our love of possibility. They embody the hope and the dream we can have immortality. We can. Everyday. That is the heart, mind and spirit of this book. 
         Actors have always fascinated us because we believe they are just like us... only more so.  The actor is the universal metaphor for our basic urge to be free, to fully express ourselves.  This book is offered in the hope of promoting that quest.  As a means of continual self-discovery these daily practices teach us to know, understand and use the meaning of our lives more fully. They set us free to ACT, to make wonderful, original use of our discoveries.


 

 

 

    During the making of a film in 1920 with the great director D. W. Griffith, Lillian Gish remembers floating down a river on an ice floe in the middle of winter:

   "Mister Griffith kept shouting at me, 'Look at the camera! Look at the camera! But I couldn't, I had icicles on my eyelids."

        Lillian Gish, Actress
 
 
 
 

 

 

 



"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
 
                                                             e.e. cummings
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