Mr. Fishburne never went to college and shunned acting lessons, preferring to learn through experience, from mentors like Francis Ford Coppola (who directed him in "Apocalypse Now" and other films) and by emulating his idols, including Mr. Jones, Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton.
He sought realism in acting, shunned self-conscious interaction with the audience, and insisted on a standard of characterisation where the characters were never aware of their own absurdity.
Because of our innate striving to persevere which, in the human being, is called "will" or "appetite"—we naturally pursue those things that we believe will benefit us by increasing our power of acting and shun or flee those things that we believe will harm us by decreasing our power of acting.
So, what is actually being said when we publicly shun our people for acting on the frustrations bottled up from being oppressed?
And as Mr Obama has observed, many black students sneer that a classmate who reads is "acting white"—and shun him.
"He has created sympathy for himself.... 'Here I am, poor little me, fighting these conglomerates.'" Sheen's move to shun the Hollywood game of acting contrite when caught behaving badly clearly has struck a chord with a portion of the population weary of celebrities who whine and apologize about their mistakes only to go out and commit them again.
They're still forming cliques and acting out and shunning the kids they see as losers.
She said: "I find that, by entirely shunning computers, they considered they were acting, as the Bible required them to do, in accordance with their religious conscience.
Shun could not interfere with the judge, who was acting on the law.
Israel and Hamas shun each other, and German and Egyptian mediators have been acting as go-betweens in swap talks.
When acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco quit the race, party leaders shunned Mr. Schundler and immediately drafted Mr. Franks to run against him.
