Osho on Acting
The great spiritual guru Osho has touched many lives. I keep a copy of his book The Inner Journey next to my bed. Last night I read this, and I thought of the acting process:
"When someone digs a well, he first takes out the soil and stones and then water seeps in from the sides of the well and fills it. The water was already there, it did not need to be brought from anywhere else. Only some stones and layers of soil needed to be removed. There were some hindrances, some obstacles: once they were removed the water appeared. It was not necessary to bring water to the well, it was already there - just some hindrances had to be removed."
Thus it is in acting. We don't "put on a character" we "let one emerge". The work is always clearer when we leave the realm of the thinking. As a famous acting teacher once said, "Get out of the way, it's none of your business."
Peace.
Wayne
