Concerntration: "Acting has nothing to do with the ability to concenrate. It has to do with the ability to imagine." I kind of like this saying, actually. I've jumped onto the imagination board in this book. I think it's a far healthier way to act; to imagine things as opposed to actually believing them.
Talent: "A concern with one's talent is like a concern with one's height -- it is an attempt to appropriate prerogatives which the gods have already exercised." I agree with this. I think that each person has specific talents that they are born with; these skils can be bettered, but they cannot be created. I think that Mamet suggesting that actors learn skills in voice, dance and script does not particularly mean that the actor needs to go to school. They may need lessons on these things, but that could easily occur during rehearsals.
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