The Intent to Live
Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
$43.52
- Paperback
358 pages
- Release Date
27 December 2005
Summary
“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.” -Larry Moss, from the Introduction
When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a two-year waiting list for his advanced acting classes. But now everyone-professionals and amateurs alike-can discover Moss’s passionate, in-depth teaching.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553381207 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553381202 |
| Author: | Larry Moss |
| Publisher: | Bantam Books |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 358 |
| Release Date: | 27 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 157mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
“I love the work I’ve gotten to do with Larry. He loves actors, he loves acting, and I love him.”
–Helen Hunt
“Larry Moss is probably the most knowledgeable, articulate, creative, compassionate teacher of acting in America today. He is solely responsible for transforming me from a talented person into an artist.”
–Jason Alexander
“Larry has an uncompromising dedication to the art and craft of acting. I wouldn’t take on another role without working with him.”
–Hilary Swank
“Larry is pure genius. He opened my heart and allowed me to feel again. I would not have been able to be John Coffey without him.”
–Michael Clarke Duncan
Larry Moss
Larry Moss studied his craft with Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and Warren Robertson. He began his career at New York’s famed cabaret Upstairs at the Downstairs and went on to appear on Broadway in numerous productions. After teaching at Juilliard and Circle in the Square, Moss returned to Los Angeles and founded the Larry Moss Studio in 1990. His directing credits include the off-Broadway hit “The Syringa Tree,” which won the 2001 Obie for Best Play of the Year, and a new play opening on Broadway in spring 2005.
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