"Brando's performances revolutionized American acting precisely because he didn't seem to be 'performing', in the sense that he wasn't putting something on as much as he was being.
But the Shiite leaders did precisely the opposite, acting from the start in a blatantly sectarian fashion and then arming the Shiite death squads that turned the one-way insurgency into a two-way civil war.
Brando's performances revolutionized American acting precisely because he didn't seem to be "performing," in the sense that he wasn't putting something on as much as he was being Franco's description of the style is, I think, accurate; his diagnosis of its connection to Brando's public image is beside the point.
Yes, everyone likes to be accepted, but if someone doesn't "like" you because you are not wearing the right thing (in their book) or acting precisely as someone else would, to hell with them.
Yet the distinctive feature of Smith's acting is precisely that it feels real.
Stewart is an unusual casting decision – the leggy daughter of Rod, her experience of acting is precisely nil.
This is a turn-about for someone who long believed that acting was precisely what he wasn't going to do.
More precisely, according to Leibniz, "the very substance of things consists in a force for acting and being acted upon," (G IV 508/AG 159) that is, each simple substance is endowed with what Leibniz calls primitive active and passive powers.
Thus, acting otherwise or, more precisely, failing to act on one's fundamental commitments, comes at the price of transforming who one is.
We cannot precisely predict future conditions so we must act adaptively, designing responses, acting, evaluating results, re-designing and trying again.
But all the shuttling back and forth has taught Sheila precisely the wrong lesson, that acting threatening or running away gives her power over others, said Melissa Sweitzer, a psychologist who examined her.
