How to be the BEST actress in my class!?

Question:How to be the BEST actress in my class!?
Hi,
I'm in a drama class at school with only 9 people in the class. Anyway I've done a lot of acting before and not to sound conceeded but I'm really good. Anyhow, there is one other girl that's just good as me and I'm starting to think better. I really want to get better so I'm just as good as her if not better I know I should do it for me and not for her but I want to be just as good as her. We do mostly improves. So improving tips. I want to excel!
I guess improvistation is what I want to improve in I always start laughing!

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Hi,
I'm in a drama class at school with only 9 people in the class. Anyway I've done a lot of acting before and not to sound conceeded but I'm really good. Anyhow, there is one other girl that's just good as me and I'm starting to think better. I really want to get better so I'm just as good as her if not better I know I should do it for me and not for her but I want to be just as good as her. We do mostly improves. So improving tips. I want to excel!
I guess improvistation is what I want to improve in I always start laughing!

As a director, here's my thought:
I don't think you (or anyone) as an actor should ever base their progression and development on another person. What you can do is watch her style and pick out from it. If you want to 'show her up', which is what it sounds like, then isolate what she is best at (voices, body language, faces, etc.) and spend some alone time, training yourself to do that better. I've seen lots of strengths and weaknesses in talent, as a director. One consistent weakness is the lack of self-confidence. What you have is what you're good at, if that makes any sense. Focus on what you can do and do it best. The rest is just details.

As far as laughing goes, I tell my talent that if they feel like laughing, that they're gonna look like an @$$ in front of everyone else, and piss 'em off because it slows down the act and disturbs any progression that's going on.

Good luck.

practice alot infront of a mirror. i guess put alot of improv topics in a bucket or something, and pull one out of it and do the topic infront of a mirror. and then ask your family to let you practice with them everyonce in a while!

The best thing you can do with improv is practice. I know it sounds wierd because everything is done on the spot, but practice the games. For example, you are doing the alphabet game, go over in your head of starting sentences with each letter of the alphabet. For example you are starting with the letter F. Fine day to day don't you think? Good of you to notice. How's that paper going along? I think I'm almost done. Just remember to spell and grammar check. Kind of you to remind me. And so on and so forth. You may also want to consider asking this other girl to work with you. If you both practice the games together, then you will both do well and you might be able to learn from her. With my improv buddies, we are always starting games together. All of a sudden we will be doing the question game, or someother such nonsense. It is a lot of fun, and we all get faster.
The idea of putting improv games in a hat and pulling them out randomly was also a very good idea and definately a good way to practice on your own.

Hope this helps.

If you cannot stay in character in your improvs, you aren't that good an actress. To be best in class you will have to be born with the most ability. Improv. is not the same as acting from a script.