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I Don"t Need an Acting Class

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe Academy Award winner and celebrated acting teacher Milton Justice invites you into his weekly acting class, based on his years of study with the legendary Stella Adler. I Don’t Need an Acting Class delves deep into the craft of acting, breaks down concepts, tools and techniques, explores endless possibilities and offers you a foundation on which to build a solid, dependable process. Produced by Walker

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00:15:53

Making Active Choices

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/05/19

Making choices that really bring you to life seems to be a constant struggle. Maybe it's because we're relieved that we can come up with any choice, but the choices must be worth it. They can't be passive.

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00:13:16

Living Off Your Partner

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/05/13

Actively building an attitude to your partner can open you up to the action of the scene.

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00:12:52

Empathy and Sympathy

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/05/05

We need to really be careful about the vocabulary of acting. There are concepts that keep working their way and it can dangerously lead actors to a kind of passivity that lessens the power of experiencing.

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00:14:29

Believe Your Choices

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/04/29

After I vent about the Broadway production of Death of a Salesman, where they yelled at the audience for three hours, we look at the necessity of not just making great choices, but believing them. Not just performing them.

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00:16:20

Character Traits and Actions

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/04/21

Directors give performance or effect directions. It forces actors to play cliches. Figuring out the nature of a character trait or spine or personality frees an actor to play an action ... or an impulse ... that makes behavior more actable.

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00:16:09

Actors Talk Acting

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/04/16

Last week I gave classes in Poland and it was extremely useful to have a fresh perspective on students who were slightly new to this way of working – and also affording an opportunity for actors to talk about their particular problems.

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00:18:05

Working On A Monologue

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/04/07

My student, JP, has been working on the Biff and Happy scene from Death of a Salesman. In this episode we work through a place where he was stuck with that feeling of "now I'm performing a monologue."

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00:14:57

The Actor's Personal Connection

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/03/31

In coaching an actor this week, I was struck again by what feels obvious—and yet is so often missed: the actor must find a personal connection to the circumstances, or the character’s conflict never becomes a lived experience.

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00:13:53

Talking Out

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/03/31

Revisiting the concept of talking out as a way to help actors own everything they think about a character and a play.

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00:14:04

Living off your Partner

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/03/24

Building the character's attitude towards their partner is not only essential in playing a scene, it saves you. There's a danger, however, in building the attitude all on one level.

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00:17:50

What to work on

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/03/18

Sometimes I think we've just had too many classes - and too many teachers telling you what you have to do in order to play a part. An actor needs to develop the ability to figure out what is necessary for each part.

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00:15:42

Seeing What's Not There

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/03/13

The ability to visualize and live off images that are in the actor's imagination is a great skill to develop. It keeps you from acting in a vacuum,– to say nothing of solving the problem of a bad partner.

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00:13:53

Talking Out Revisited

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/03/03

Actor work is not an intellectual exercise. And it’s not about “good writing.”It’s about experiencing.The audience doesn’t come to the theater for the words on the page. They come for the experience of what the character is going through — in the world of the play.In this episode, I return to one of my core tools: Talking Out. Through études — structured improvisations in which you speak aloud everything happening with your character — you begin to move off analyzing and philosophizing about the

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00:16:19

The Technique Works!

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/02/24

Actors have a tendency to abandon their technique as soon as they get an audition – and leap to a performance. Just taking a little time to really think about the text makes an enormous difference.

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00:18:49

Building a Character

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/02/17

There are many roads in to building a character and, unfortunately, there is no paint-by-number approach. It's great as an actor to play with several different techniques.

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00:16:11

Connecting Through Specifics

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/02/10

When an actor does not connect, you catch them "acting". It doesn't matter if it's a television series or a play. Specificity helps us connect.

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00:16:32

Fighting Clichés through Specificity and Events

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/02/03

We have a tendency to leap to clichés because the dialogue seems to lead us there. There's a way to fight this.

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00:17:04

An Encyclopedic Possibility of Choices

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/01/27

It's very difficult to believe that there is not just one correct choice. As long as an actor is clear what the text is about, there are countless roads in to the experience of the world of the play.

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00:14:43

Your choices must feed the text

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/01/20

"Everything is something." It seems simple, but as actors we often skip over something that can give us the key we're looking for.

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00:15:08

Everything is Something

I Don"t Need an Acting Class ·

2026/01/13

The craft of acting is there to give us confidence. If we're not confident it's easy to see, especially for people casting. One of our problems is that we often throw away lines, – or parts of lines, – or even entire phrases. We miss the opportunities for creative acting work because we rush so fast to performance.

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