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We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves. ~ Glenn Close.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different. ~ Sir Ian McKellen.
Had a depressing weekend, for reasons I won’t go into (too dull & pointless), but during the mire I found the bright side being down: it seems to act as some kind of emotional release.
Everything seemed to happen more easily. I tested it out on various characters/plays and seemed to come up with something workable and justifiable more readily. I felt freer and more connected to the life of the character. Not that I was her but kind of like she lived through me, like I was conduit.
The strange thing was that I was still completely in control, able to keep the technique working. Was it that my inhibitions were lessened? That I was emotionally vulnerable and therefore freer? Or that I just stopped caring?
It’s how I remember work being before I took my break (Although I don’t recall being so dark in my teenage years – 
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Hm I wonder what is going on and why? It felt pretty good, but was gone the next day 
How to recreate it so that my own personal situation becomes irrelevent. I guess finding the answer to that is why we all train. buy plavix breast augmentation newport beach cymbalta lawsuit
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You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. ~ Meryl Streep.
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Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. ~ Sir Laurence Olivier.
- There’s really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That’s kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.
- My old drama coach used to say, “Don’t just do something, stand there.” Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.
- You have to trust your instincts. There’s a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it. Behind the camera you can feel the moment even more clearly. And once you’ve got it, once you feel it, you can’t second-guess yourself. You can find a million reasons why something didn’t work. But if it feels right, and it looks right, it works. Without sounding like a pseudointellectual dipshit, it’s my responsibility to be true to myself. If it works for me, it’s right.
- Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
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Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. ~ Bette Davis.
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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. ~ Meryl Streep.
My quest to hunt down useful online resources seems to be continuing apace. First the Guardian, now Paul Brighton of Audition Portal! He regularly suggests challenges to flex and tone the old performing muscles. I’ve only been using them for a few days so far but they’re certainly pushing me into more variety in my studies. Hopefully this is organically helping me to create a better curriculum (?!) and that can only be a good thing! Here are a few recent challenges I’ve been working on. I’ll keep coming back to them (probably with very tedious progress reports of the glaringly obvious) but for now, here’s a list.
May 14: Evaluate your use of “Sensory Recall” or visualization, in dramatizing fear, feeling cold or hot. Practice.
May 13: Practice “Sense Memory.” What makes you cry? Can you cry right now? Today, practice remembering something sad.
May 11: Take an acting class or workshop, if you don’t already. It’s never too late to learn something about your craft.
May 8: For today’s audition, eat well beforehand. No simple carbs, drink lots of water.Clear mind+Preparedness=Success!
May 6: Refine your Sense Memory skills. Be in the moment. Understand what you feel. Muscles have memory, so do emotions!
May 4: Take a scene from your favorite movie & videotape yourself acting that scene out. Observe and study it. What fun!
Plus this found this great tit-bit: “Camera Actors Tip: react to upcoming thoughts, not illustrate the outgoing one. Why? Editing.” from Chris Lutkin.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different. ~ Sir Ian McKellen.
I have just found out (thanks to the brilliant Daily Actor) that The Guardian newspaper have a section dedicated to the craft of theatre. 
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I haven’t fully explored, but it looks like a wonderful resource, especially for the training novice, like myself. This article is certainly fabulous: 10 Questions! I think I’m going to be spending a lot of time over there.
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You have to trust your instincts. There’s a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it. Behind the camera you can feel the moment even more clearly. And once you’ve got it, once you feel it, you can’t second-guess yourself. You can find a million reasons why something didn’t work. But if it feels right, and it looks right, it works. Without sounding like a pseudointellectual dipshit, it’s my responsibility to be true to myself. If it works for me, it’s right. ~ Clint Eastwood.
Listened to Michael Caine on ‘The Paul O’Grady’ show the other day. He was so entertaining. And enlightening. He gave some fabulous tips on achieving accents. If anyone’s been following my tweets of recent weeks they’ll know I’ve been learning Texas and it was one of the one’s he chatted about. 
Love serendipity!
OK so here’s what he said.
Texas: make sure you let each word lean on the next one, so they all end up leaning on each other.
- It’s really helped.
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- Not tried but sounds too good to be true.
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Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. ~ Sir Laurence Olivier.
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