Participation.

The process or fact of sharing in an action, sentiment, etc...active involvement in a matter or event, especially one in which the outcome directly affects those taking part.

Many persons are shut out from any participation in political power.
J. Bright, Speeches

It’s your activity in an artistic endeavour such as a play or film. Or when you make that crucial collegial agreement to throw the ball back and forth with your scene partner. It’s the opposite of being a bystander. If you’re participating you can take it easy.

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Humiliation.

The action of humiliating or condition of being humiliated; humbling, abasement.

I think ‘humiliation’ is a very different condition of mind from humility. ‘Humiliation’ no man can desire; it is shame and torture.
G. MacDonald Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, 1878

You can be humiliated by being paid minimum; you can be humiliated by not being given credit by casting; you can be humiliated by American producers for being Canadian; you can be humiliated as a woman; you can be humiliated by the collective agreement not being fulfilled; you can be humiliated by not having a say in the industry; you can be humiliated by not getting work; you can be humiliated by working long hours; you can be humiliated by having to promote a movie; you can be humiliated by themes of violence, racism, sexism; you can be humiliated by not having freedom of speech.

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Assimilate.

To convert into a substance of its own nature, as the bodily organs convert food into blood, ...to absorb into the system, incorporate.

Vegetables decompose the carbonic acid, assimilate the carbon and set the oxygen free.
M. Somerville Molecular & Microsc. Sci. (1869)

With repeated practice you assimilate an idea and then it’s in you.

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Time.

A finite extent or stretch of continued existence, as the interval separating two successive events or actions, or the period during which an action, condition, or state continues; a finite portion of time (in its infinite sense).

It was a long time since Henry had worked on the play, and he was impatient for rehearsals to begin.
— D. Lodge Author, Author

For the actor, time, along with space, always has to be considered. It’s in all our work in every shape and form. Maybe Time is the ultimate answer to all things.

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Imagination.

The mind's creativity and resourcefulness in using and inventing images, analogies, etc.; poetic or artistic genius or talent.

She moves in the higher realms of the creative imagination.  A. Noyes Pageant of Lett

All actors know how to access and use its great source of creativity. One of the four pillars of acting along with Memory, Immediate Response, and Observation.

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Ease and Grace.

Ease: In comfort, without anxiety or annoyance, unconstrained, unembarrassed. Facility as opposed to difficulty.
Grace: Refined elegance of manner, expression, form, or movement. Regarded as natural or effortless.

She moved through the water with effortless grace.

A state where we play seemingly effortlessly and the scene just flies by. The highest level of work is done like this.

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