Acting? HELP!!! ALL ANSWERS EVERYONE!! EXPERTS and AMATEUR PERFORMERS!?

Question:I want to be an actress and I think i have some talent, but your best might never be good enough so i would like to gather many tips and advice you have, please! ANY!!
1)How do you CRY?
2) Shouting and give energy?
3) Give seriuos monolgues?
4) Key Body language and body movements..
5)Act hurt mentally and physically?

Also anytips on clarity, voice projection,facial expression, all to do with drama and making it into the business!

I try to do 'real' facial expressions, but my face just looks stupid and over dramatic!!

Who are your favourite performers and WHY, what do they do so right??

Ive tried to look at the internet but it only helps to an extend and not many others have asked this question.
what do you think is powerful in a performance??

THANK YOU !!

PLEASE!

Also how can i get started in the industry?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I want to be an actress and I think i have some talent, but your best might never be good enough so i would like to gather many tips and advice you have, please! ANY!!
1)How do you CRY?
2) Shouting and give energy?
3) Give seriuos monolgues?
4) Key Body language and body movements..
5)Act hurt mentally and physically?

Also anytips on clarity, voice projection,facial expression, all to do with drama and making it into the business!

I try to do 'real' facial expressions, but my face just looks stupid and over dramatic!!

Who are your favourite performers and WHY, what do they do so right??

Ive tried to look at the internet but it only helps to an extend and not many others have asked this question.
what do you think is powerful in a performance??

THANK YOU !!

PLEASE!

Also how can i get started in the industry?

The truly good performance is the one that has the most work.
As talented as one might be, as you probable are, it means nothing until true work is done. How to work is the next question. Look through newspapers and go to community theaters to find work, keeping in mind that no job is too small. If you are in high school as I am, join theater and do VERY WELL on SATs so as to get into a good acting college. Then, it's a matter of system to aproaching a role. Here is mine:

1. Study your character's RELATION to what she is thinking about, the possibilities of thought ranging endlessly within what writers call the five conflicts: spirit (God, Satan, etc.), physical things (a tree, water, a piano, etc.), another person or people (normally people mentioned or focused on in the show you are doing), an idea (love, hate, death, etc.), and the most interesting, herself. These will be evident in the play, which we'll get to in an example, later.
2. Create the character's physical response to these things, the expression of the face and it's changes, the movements and forms of her body, and her voice.

Here is an example:

In the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar, the main character Brutus has a wife named Portia, from whom he hides secrets, blaming his pacing around in the garden at night on physical ailments. In this monologue, Portia proves her love and honesty by cutting her thigh, the pledge of a Roman soldier to his master or leader.

PORTIA

"I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd and so husbanded?
Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:
I have made strong proof of my constancy,
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.
And not my husband's secrets?"

The first "conflict" on which Portia focuses is an idea, that of a woman in Roman society. Women in the time were granted extremely minimal power or influence. After the first conflict, we hear her speak of her husband Brutus, a person to person conflict. Next is an internal conflict, which is her own strength; then, objects, which are her thigh and a knife.
This is purely an overview of the depth of this monologue.

So, then you construct your character's physical responses to these conflicts. Portia is an overtly graceful character, considered beautiful and elegant, so the actress would create bodily movements of flow and confidence. Her face would be soft and gentle, but nonetheless constant. As her speech becomes more and more intense, her voice, completely imagined by you, does too. Always remember that these are created by you, your imagination and no director's or producer's. Be creative, be original.

Of course, much of Hollywood and Broadway have forgotten this art, and so for you to do well you MUST TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY. Train it, discipline it, love it. Then, as Proverbs says repeatedly, attain wisdom. Learn from every experience you are given.

My favorite actor is Marlon Brando. You can see a completely diverse depth in each character he portrays. If only he had taken care of himself.

Never think your face looks stupid or overdramatic. Beleive in yourself and know that work is work, the more you try, the better you get.

Robert duval ,watch him ,His facial expressions,hand expressions. remember it's not what you say or do : but How

start with the simple

Ok that Sonya girl above is just mean don't listen to her. In acting, to cry you have to think of something sad and kinda make yourself think that it is really happening (i'm not an actress but when i want someone to think I am crying I make the noises and that sometimes gets tears out) and you will start to cry. And when you want to be dramatic about something, just think it is really happening and that it isn't all just an act. It will take practice, but eventually, if you try hard enough, you will make it.

If acting doesn't already come instinctively, then you're considering the wrong business.
The most powerful performance is one that comes from the heart.

First off, I've never been good at making myself cry, so I don't try to. Forcing it will just make it look that much more fake. Whatever you do, don't shout that will just ruin your vocal chords. Projecting is the key. To project, you need to speak from your diaphram (the triangle type area where you ribs meet). As for serious monologues, I would really start reading plays. I wouldn't immediately delve into Shakespeare because it is extreamly difficult. However, I would reccomend Neil Simon, Christoper Durang, and even Tim Kelly (although he did a lot of melodrama which is a genre all of it's own) It's wierd to say, but acting hurt will come accross fake. You need to feel it. Take yourself to a time/place when you were hurt in real life and allow yourself to feel that pain again. It will come accross when you perform.
As for facial expression, again it will come accross as you react to the situation in the play you are in. Put yourself in your character's shoes. This is where research and fleshing out your character comes into play. You need to create a personality for that character. As you read a script think about how that character feels and would react to that situation. Then put yourself into it.
I have a bunch of favorite performers, and the reason I like them is because their characters come accross as believeable.
If I were you, I could try to get involved in a local community theater. One learns best in acting if they are actually doing it. Once you have some experience you can move on to more professional theaters. Take some classes as well. Many community colleges have excellent drama programs in which you can learn a lot. A really neat place to go to is a site entitled Community Theater Green Room. Check out their discussion boards. They have a ton of great information on acting, directing, the whole bit.
Well I hope this helps.

Heey. So here are some answers to some of the questions from a 14 year old point of view :D aha.
1)How do you CRY?
-Okay to cry can be one of the hardest things an actor can do. Especially if you haven't had anything sad really happen to you. Which would be me. So to get yourself to cry, there are some ways. lol. You can think of that REALLY sad thing, and forget about what your doing. Think about that one time. And you will probably tear. The reast is to get emotionally ready for that scene and then with that tearing you will flow right into some crying.

2) Shouting and give energy?
-Well we obviously know how to shout. But to give energy, you should have a feel for when to do it. When your character is very excited or very like.. umm i don't even know. lol. You just start to get that excitment in your stomach during that scene and you explode. You have no idea where it comes from. Try watching tv and seeing when the actors give out the splurge of energy and then do some monologues and try it.

3) Give seriuos monolgues?
To give serious monologues. You have to read the whole thing. And then answer some questions. Like "What is my character feeling, what is she saying, is she trying to tell me something" So try asking and answering those questions. Then when you start the monolgoue, forget about your life and just put in all the stuff you know about your character. If this is a sad scene, speak slowley and carafeully so that everyone can hear every little word.

4) Key Body language and body movements..
-I have so much trouble with body movements because im kinda a stiff sometimes ahha. So i won't move when i should be. My trick is to before the scene. Try doing it in all types of ways with different body movements and choose the best one. Good body language could be like. during a romance, to touch their shoulder, or when they're sad, give them a comforting pat. lol.

5)Act hurt mentally and physically?
-To act hurt mentally and physacally, Answer those questions. And then onbce again put yourself in that characters position. FEEL! waht she would be. THINK how she would. Anything.!
to add some things in there. You can close your eyes like absorbing the pain. Or looking down or not into the eyes of the other character.

GOOD LUCK!!
xoxo

Let's get real. To do the first 5 things, learn to act. Your second statement is naive, those things do not get you into the business. Third, film actors don't do much at all, which is what makes them good. Fourth, power in a peformance comes from the actor being effective in doing the role.
And Fifth, the only way for you to get started is to get your parents working on it for you they will have to find you experience, training and an agent. They have to do it because you cannot sign contracts until you are 18.

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