How do i Improve my Acting Skills Techniques? ?

Question:I want to SERIOUSLY do some useful excersises or use techniques to help me develop my acting skills.
Please help (Especailly because recently i dont know what i have)

Please give me techniques excersises, warm ups, anything
.eg/ close your eyes imagine, blah.......,
Usually ill do these when alone! so they can look and be silly but EFFECTIVE!!!!

How can i feel the character and become it?
Move like tey would, and how do i know if its Right??

(I am planning on getting books so don say get this book, and my drama teachers dont really help me alot--so i need this!)

Thanks !

10 pts to DETAIL explanations, ideas ........

Please give a good answer! 12 points!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I want to SERIOUSLY do some useful excersises or use techniques to help me develop my acting skills.
Please help (Especailly because recently i dont know what i have)

Please give me techniques excersises, warm ups, anything
.eg/ close your eyes imagine, blah.......,
Usually ill do these when alone! so they can look and be silly but EFFECTIVE!!!!

How can i feel the character and become it?
Move like tey would, and how do i know if its Right??

(I am planning on getting books so don say get this book, and my drama teachers dont really help me alot--so i need this!)

Thanks !

10 pts to DETAIL explanations, ideas ........

Please give a good answer! 12 points!

I know that it sounds rather stupid, but READ the character. READ the play. READ the scene, if there is no real play. Make up the character. Write a character biography, including all of the random things that the character likes and doesn't like. Make the character real to YOU. Do this with different characters, use your imagination a little. It will help you, I promise. Once you "get to know them" it will be much easier.

I also might suggest starting off with someone you know. Write down what you know about them, what they like, etc. Then, try to act like them. It will help you, and even if it isn't completely real, you're still getting practice.

This is not a simple question that can be answered in a forum, for starters read a Challenge for the Actor by Uta Hagen that is my favorite book of all that i have read. She talks a lot about observation, you need to observe yourself and others, take what you learn from the observations and put it up on stage. Study your favorite actors, what do they do when they walk in a room, drink a cup of coffee, etc.?