Every person is an absolute, unrepeatable individual---but our emotions---the 6 core emotions--are cross-cultural, primitive, ancient as mankind and universal. They are the same in Borneo, Japan, Kenya, Chile, France, Ireland, Russia, China, and the good ol’ US-of-A. We all have inborn access to the Primitive "Precious 7.”
"…breathing accompanies the emotion, and it is possible to enter into the feeling through the breath, provided one could discriminate which breathing corresponds to which emotion." — Antonin Artaud (1932)
Actors/artists do not like to feel "reduced" to the technical. We like creative, chaotic mystery. Alba does not reduce us.
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For one with the courage to go to the very edge of one’s own comfort zone, the reward is nothing less then coming to the awesome, terrible beauty of the authentic, core emotional self.
We are emotional beings. From the time we are babies we are emotional. Human emotion is a “terrible beauty,” to borrow from poet W. B. Yeats; each complex emotion we have, shifting like quicksilver in time, has a Terrible Beauty.
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I have never told this story before: it always seemed to belong to the other actor, not to me. It was an onstage moment of pure unadulterated terror: I, as Laura in “The Glass Menagerie,” looked up into the eyes of my mother, Amanda, and saw – not Amanda, not a mother at all, but another Laura – another self; and suddenly, inexorably, she grabbed onto me through the eyes…we were immersed in each other’s terror, we were about to drown in emotion – really drown – together. It was horrifying!
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