What have YOUR GREATEST acting teachers ever tought you?

Question:What words of widsom have they said to you that helped you become a better actor or understand the role you are playing with more depth?

Also you can add your own pieces of advice anything to do with acting and the industry... eg/ how to cry, good ways of body movement/hand movement include.....

Thank You for your time [answers with detail-- hey you might get 10pts!!]

Anyone who has ever auditioned successfully--
what monologue did you do and where from?
how did you perform it?

:):):)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What words of widsom have they said to you that helped you become a better actor or understand the role you are playing with more depth?

Also you can add your own pieces of advice anything to do with acting and the industry... eg/ how to cry, good ways of body movement/hand movement include.....

Thank You for your time [answers with detail-- hey you might get 10pts!!]

Anyone who has ever auditioned successfully--
what monologue did you do and where from?
how did you perform it?

:):):)

"Acting Is To Interpret Another, So Make Sure The People Understand What Your Interpreting For Them". my own advice would be, don't stare at the other auditioners in line for too long. check them out, see what they've got but make sure you don't copy. you must always be unique. always. and do not get intimidated. do your own thing. do it the way you know how to. i've auditioned successfully a few times with a monologue i've got from a fellow student of mine. it's gold! and it's a male monologue so you would not be interested. but it's awesome, witty/dramatic/comical but shows alot of charisma. how did i perform it? did not shake, no ums, no blahs, no redos, just a solid performance. goodluck.

Wow good question!

Mine was my teacher who said
"Acting shouldn't be called acting, it should be called pretending. Pretending to be someone your not is what you're trying to do anyway. Acting like them, only says you're trying to do some things like them.
So PRETEND you're this character."

It's very helpful!

i have had lots of special training by the best teachers in the US and the things i have found most impotant are have fun, never break character, in theatre never put your butt to the audience, and dont be afraid to ask the director about anything or make suggestions to her/him. what i suggest is that when you are having trouble feeling an emotion picture smoething that will help you feel tht emotion. e.g. if you are scared in a scene then pictre a clown (if scared of clowns) to make you scared. same with every emotion in the play or Television show.

Hope that helped!

Have fun with what you're doing...

OH!
and PROJECT! PROJECT! PROJECT!!
and to use good diction...

"Energy! Energy! Energy!"

Bob Peterson, BCCC

Make the conflicts your character has personal. Pretend you are playing a person who just really hates your father. Well then if you are performing a monologue or having an argument with the character your character dislikes think of someone in your own life that you dislike just as much as your character dislikes their person.

An Example shown to me by my instructor was this: He played Juliet's Father. Juliet was played by a girl that has become like a daughter to him. When his character finds out about Juliet's death he takes it personally and pictures that his own student is actually dead. It makes it more real and actually I began to cry because it was so powerful.

So make it personal!! Show the audience who you are through the character you are portraying. Let your character swallow you to the point that you are your character.

Don't just act with your head but also with your heart.

"Acting is Re-acting." I learned that performing a song, a dance, a play, a monologe, anything really isnt just acting it out. It's reacting to whats going on around you. When you sing, you dont just let nice sounds come out of your mouth. You react to what the song is about. If it is sad, you act sad, and so on. When you dance, you dont just do the steps, you really dance them. When you act, theres no telling what will happen, as it is live theatre. You constantly need to be paying attention and REACTING to what is going on with the sets, the other actors, and the audience. That's also where improv comes in =].

Crying....I've been in "Little Women", "A Little Princess" "Narnia" and alot of other very sad plays. Mostly, I get really into character and see how they are feeling. If you are devoted enough to your part, it will come.

Getting into character...during the time you are putting on the production, with every little thing you do, think how youre character would do it.

this is interesting

RELAX-RELAX-RELAX, and LISTEN-LISTEN-LISTEN.

"Acting=Communication"

"Be Professional"

"Have fun and don't take yourself so seriously. You are not curing cancer or splitting the atom."

"Acting is an imaginary response to a real situation. Plant yourself in the moment of the play/script and allow it to happen to you. Technique, methods, training, skills and experience are great when you get in trouble but those should not be the means to an end'

1. in the end it shouldnt look like acting
2. i use the monoluge that they give u