And the door into this emotion shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion. Or as Leonard Cohen says, Pay attention to...
This is a huge deal because as people in the movie business know the absolute hardest thing in the whole world is to persuade a straight male audience to identify with a woman protagonist to feel themselves embodied by her. This, more than any other...
Often men my age, President Clinton, by the way, when I met him said--Men my age, mention that character as their favorite of all the women I've played. And I have my own secret understanding of why that is and it confirms every decision I made in hi...
I got to Vassar which 43 years ago was a single-sex institution, like all the colleges in what they call the Seven Sisters, the female Ivy League and I made some very quick but lifelong and challenging friends. And with their help outside of any comp...
And along with all my other exterior choices, I worked on, what actors call, my interior adjustment. I adjusted my natural temperament which tends to be slightly bossy, a little opinionated, loud, a little loud full of pronouncements and high spirits...
Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. And in high school, another form of acting took hold of me. I wanted to learn how to be appealing. So I studied the character I imagined I wanted to be that of the generically pretty high school girl and I...
I remember very clearly my own first conscious attempt at acting. I was six, placing my mother's half slip over my head in preparation to play the Virgin Mary in our living room. As I swaddled my Betsy Wetsy doll, I felt quiet, holy, actually, and my...
Women, I feel I can say this authoritatively, especially at Barnard where they can't hear us, what am I talking about? They professionally can't hear us. Women are better at acting than men. Why? Because we have to be, successfull convincing someone...
20多岁的你已经是个大人了，也许你还在享受美好的青春时光，但有一些幼稚的行为还是不要再做了。不管是那些不好的生活习惯、那些没注意到的社交礼仪，还是那些在感情和人际关系处理上...
Many people have what they call a bucket list: namely, a list of things they want to experience or accomplish before they die. Sometimes, a bucket list just doesnt cut it, however, which is why making an impossible list is the way to go. Following th...
