Do you actually believe actors are a lot like horses?

Do you actually believe actors are a lot like horses?

William Shatner (Author) gives expert video advice on: Why did you become an actor?; What's the William Shatner 'Problem Solving' approach to acting?; How should an actor learn to embrace a role? and more...

A great show horse has to have form. It has to be beautiful. Beauty is one of the criteria. It has to be... has to have a talent. Has to be put together right. Even a horse that isn't beautiful per se needs to have the beauty of form and function. So they have to be put together right. Then they have to have a talent for whatever it is the horse is going to do. Then it has to have what horsemen call heart but it also means brain. It means trainability. It means it wants to go out and do and do and do no matter what you do to it, it's going on, forward. And yet it needs to have the ability to be disciplined so that going, going forward is going forward and then turning to the left and if you miss any of those three things your horse is pretty and does but it's crazy, or your horse is pretty and crazy but doesn't do or it's the worst thing you know; it's all of that. Well, when that convergence happens, and you've got heart and you've got ability and you've got the form then you have an unusual thing happen. And in any world, whether it's the horse world or show business.