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Fine on Acting: A Vision of the Craft

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I can't write a review that will do this book justice but...

If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and put the work in, Fine on Acting gives you the tools to build the foundation for a successful acting career. In a very short amount of time it has already allowed me to make several breakthroughs in my acting work. What is so valuable about this book is that it's not a conceptual take on the craft but rather a clear and accessible outline of the technique that will allow you to bring spontaneous life to your work. Thank you for writing this book Howard Fine. As long as I am acting this book will be by my side.

Just a few things of note:

The forward by Michael Chiklis inspires you in a way that makes you want to read the entire book in one sitting...and I did.

I really enjoyed Howard Fine's "Who Am I?" at the beginning of the book. It was revealing and extremely interesting and it allowed me to read ahead knowing that I was in good hands. I now understand why he is the most sought after acting teacher in Hollywood.

The Common Mistakes section of the book will shine a light on the habits that are most likely keeping your work from reaching new levels.

Throughout my acting career I have read many books and taken many classes. I have learned more from Howard Fine in the last year that I had in the previous 17 years of craft development. This book encompasses his gift as an acting educator. As an actor who continues to improve and grow, I need no other educator that Howard Fine and his studio of visionaries.

THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ if you have any desire to act on the level it takes to be recognized.

Howard Fine's new book on acting is like no other. For a quarter of a century, Mr. Fine has honed a technique that is highly practical yet richly textured. Demystifying the process, he helps actors develop the tools within themselves to access powerful, authentic, and exciting performances.

Fine on Acting is surprisingly conversational - while maintaining the integrity of a world-class resource.

Actors, this is it.

Bravo!

Empowering people through counseling, teaching, and personal coaching. Self-help book to inspire inner worth, and discover spiritual meaning and purpose.Its not only for artists, its for everybody who can be touched by the power of Howard

For more than twenty-five years, Howard Fine has won respect within the movie industry as an innovative teacher of acting skills and as an film director. With the assistance of co-author Chris Freeman, Howard Fine has distilled his insights and innovations as one of Hollywood's most successful acting coaches and teachers in "Fine on Acting: A Vision of the Craft", a 218-page compendium of practical advice, thoughtful insight, and real-world-based observations for aspiring actors. Covering such a broad range of issues from playing in a cast with substandard actors, to memorizing lines, to dealing with flawed directors, to auditions, rehearsals, and cogent differences between acting on television, the films, or live stage productions, "Fine On Acting" is an essential manual for personal, professional, film school, and community library Theatre/Cinema/TV reference collections and supplemental reading lists, that will be of especial value for anyone aspiring to an acting career from local community theatre to big budge Hollywood extravaganzas, to television scripts, to Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.

This is a comprehensive and clearly understandable book about the craft and experiences of acting. Howard Fine has covered in this book all the important and relevant information an actor would need in their tool box. I highly recommend this book to all actors!

Howards book, relates directly to his teaching methods in the classroom. He writes precisely what is required to understand the work, and enables us to translate it to how we will most benefit. He is an idiot-savant with acting. After years of study, a Batchelor of Dramatic Arts in acting at one of the worlds most prestigious acting schools (NIDA), I hadn't grasped the true requirements to act 'AUTHENTICALLY' until working with Howard, and his book is those exact words translated seamlessly to the page.
This tool for acting is my actors handbook, which assits me all the way from auditioning to working.

....and you don't have to be to enjoy this book. Its an insight into human behavior and how dedication and good old fashioned hard work can help you cope with life, because life throws all sorts of scenes at you, so read this and be prepared.