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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 348871" data-attributes="member: 158">EXACTLY my point. Your definition makes no discrepancy between &quot;serious actors&quot; and &quot;non-serious:, just the style of the performance. It doesn't mean a serious actor can &quot;ham it up&quot; if the audience calls for it.Incidentally, I did not demean your credentials, and if it came off that way I apologize. I gathered from your post that acting is your profession. It's only when, as I said, people start making absolute statements like &quot;serious actors&quot; and &quot;real roleplay&quot; that I become very wary of what they have to say. 7 times out of ten, the next thing that comes from that person is a statement that glorifies the way they do something at the expense of people who do it differently.Hence the origin of this thread. Gamers are just as intolerant of other gamers as football (soccer) fans for opposing teams.You may have an opinion of &quot;hammy actors&quot; as not serious, but a closer and more sustainable line is to look at it in terms of &quot;professional&quot; versus &quot;amateur.&quot; A professional makes a living from his or her craft; an amateur is someone either unable or unwilling to do this. I'm pretty sure there are a few &quot;hams&quot; making a living when by other peoples' opinions they shouldn't, but then that's what free enterprise is for; if one successfully makes a living doing a certain task, then one must be doing SOMETHING right. What that thing is, I'll leave for wiser heads than mine. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 348871, member: 158"] EXACTLY my point. Your definition makes no discrepancy between "serious actors" and "non-serious:, just the style of the performance. It doesn't mean a serious actor can "ham it up" if the audience calls for it. Incidentally, I did not demean your credentials, and if it came off that way I apologize. I gathered from your post that acting is your profession. It's only when, as I said, people start making absolute statements like "serious actors" and "real roleplay" that I become very wary of what they have to say. 7 times out of ten, the next thing that comes from that person is a statement that glorifies the way they do something at the expense of people who do it differently. Hence the origin of this thread. Gamers are just as intolerant of other gamers as football (soccer) fans for opposing teams. You may have an opinion of "hammy actors" as not serious, but a closer and more sustainable line is to look at it in terms of "professional" versus "amateur." A professional makes a living from his or her craft; an amateur is someone either unable or unwilling to do this. I'm pretty sure there are a few "hams" making a living when by other peoples' opinions they shouldn't, but then that's what free enterprise is for; if one successfully makes a living doing a certain task, then one must be doing SOMETHING right. What that thing is, I'll leave for wiser heads than mine. :) [/QUOTE]

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