# Classically Trained: Do Actors Make This Claim the Way Musicians Do?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 1, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classically-trained-do-actors-make-this-claim-the-way-musicians-do/435809 "2008-02-01T02:25:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classically-trained-do-actors-make-this-claim-the-way-musicians-do/435809/21 "2008-02-05T22:54:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom]  
Oh you’re one of \*those \*people. “Acting takes no skill. Acting is easy as pie.” Yeah go see a play with some horrible actors who have no idea how to read lines.  
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As a Senior in high school, one of my good friends was cast as The White Rabbit in a production of “Alice in Wonderland”. He was really, REALLY, awful. Pretty much ruined the whole play for me actually. Painful to watch, and akward to be around him afterward as I really didn’t want him asking what I thought of the performance. (afraid I would prove to be just as bad an actor when I told him how well he did!)

So I totally get that good actors make it look easy and natural.

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