Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Actors cannot choose how they are born, so they act without self-consciousness.
- In plain terms
- Actors do not choose their birth, which makes their early self less self-aware.
- What can you take from it?
- Accepting unchosen facts reduces self-consciousness.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What about your past do you accept?
- How does acceptance affect your actions?
Another view
The connection between birth and self-consciousness is tenuous.
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