What is the best acting advice you have for me?Come on, just about anything will be appreciated.Please?

I'm sort of a really bad actor and I seriously need to brush up my acting skills, so I desperately need the best advice any of you can give me, thank you so much!What is the best acting advice you have for me?Come on, just about anything will be appreciated.Please?
Memorize the role, not just the lines.





Ask from your characters standpoint, who what when why





Continue to add layers to your character. Don't put too much pressure to have your character completely built from the get go. Start by adding little things, expressions, annunciation of the words. Just keep adding and building him/her.





Persistence


Practice


Research-is he/she a doctor? lawyer? con man? Find out how these types are, their habits, their speech, etc.





Confidence, but at the same time, don't become egotistical. Unfortunately, as actors we are the low men/woman on the totem pole.





Never apologize for fumbling lines, just regroup and move forward.





Never break character





Draw from real life experience to recreate needed emotions, but remember, no one goes from angry to sad to happy in an instant. Realize the transformation from each emotion, like in real life is gradual, not instant.What is the best acting advice you have for me?Come on, just about anything will be appreciated.Please?
Acting is Reacting. Study your cue lines just a much as you study your own lines. Listen to what is being said to you and to what your character is saying. (A very common mistake by beginning actors is not listening in character)





Read your script every day even after you know your lines.





Analyze your script and your character. Pay attention to what other characters say in their lines about the character you are portraying. And pay attention to what your character is saying in order to gain insight into the character you are portraying.





Choose physical aspects of your character. Like a certain walk or how they carry themselves. For example if you are playing a character that is very powerful...choose to stand very tall and walk with purpose. If it is a character that is shy or easily intimidated mabye the character would walk a little slower and maybe the shoulders would slump down and inward a little. You will be surprised at how little physical traits will affect the vocal aspects of your performance.





Take your time. Don't rush things. Be in the moment of what is going on in the characters world. Remember each time you say the lines or perform this is supposed to be the first time the character is hearing these things or saying the lines. You, as the character, are having these conversations with the other characters for the first time.





Find something in your character that you can relate to. Sometimes it is easier to go through the script and find out what the character is feeling. Write the emotion out to the side of the line. Is the character angry, jealous, sad, happy, excited, etc... Isolating the emotion the character is feeling at that moment can help your delivery of the lines.





As an actor you have to be a detective and a psychologist. You have to learn to read between the lines and figure out what makes the character tick so that you can relay that through your perfomance. If you dig deeply into the script then you will find something to connect to the character that will help with your performance.





Keep plugging away!
Here is some of my favorite ';acting advice';





Learn your lines and don't run into the furniture.





Less is more.





Acting is reacting.





Don't just do something, sit there.





There are no small parts, only small actors.





And my absolute favorite trick:


Every scene is about love. What is it your character loves? Play that in the scene. Love is the strongest human emotion and is therefore the easiest to use to connect with an audience. Every character loves something in every scene, ALWAYS. Finding it, playing it, that's the trick.
';You may be turned down again and again but remember try, try, try again.';
go to an acting school. Or stay after with your acting teacher to learn more or ask freidns for help.
Get training. Get into a good acting program to learn technique that you will always be able to fall back on until it becomes second nature.





Shift your focus in a given scene from you to your scene partner. That is where you will get your stimulus from.





Don't act. Be.





Before you go into any scene, know what it is you are supposed to do and do it.





Understand the character, what he says and does and why he says it and why he does it. Know what his motivations are.





Do your homework and fill in the blanks that you don't see in the script or receive from the director.





Work on building strong public solitude. (Ask your teacher what it is.)





There is certainly more. Also learn the business side of it all. It will help you tremendously.





Have a look at my site for new and aspiring actors. http://www.actingcareerstartup.com





Tony
I think the best way to practice your acting is to get a monologue book. just read some monologues using different accents. try to realize that you want to become the character, don't overreact. Keep your words crisp and clear, even if it means saying each sound of every letter slowly. Don't mix your words. i.e., wanna, gotta, or slurring two words together, (';make him'; could turn into ';makkim';)





Be positive that you are confident, and, most importantly, make sure that you know what you're doing. When you get up onstage for an audition, and not do what you're supposed to, you'll make a complete fool of yourself. Of course, in auditions, you want to think outside of the box. You dont want to stand there and recite a monologue word for word, but you don't want to jump around the stage like a baboon, or add so much emphasis to your words that it takes away from the actual character you're portraying. finding a happy-medium is tricky but it certainly pays off.





i act in front of my mirror every night. my friends and family call me nuts and tell me i need to enter the physc ward, but it is definitely worth it. Don't be afraid to express your feelings through your character. if your character is supposed to be sad, think of something sad in your life. Acting well is harder than people think. Ignore their comments and keep up with your exercises!





Best wishes and speak clearly C ;


alex
-make sure that you have all your lines memorized


-speak loudly, clearly, and slowly


-be prepared to fill in for someone if they forget their lines.


-don't look down into the audience, it looks better if you look upwards or out over the audience.


-keep your body towards the audience unless instructed to do otherwise by the director.





and most importantly.........





Don't piss off the Director because they can easily replace you.
Here are some tips for acting





Always be honest, once you can make a part believe able then you can be more theatrical.





Read the script and make sure you understand the lines your saying





be confident, very few people just start out great, it takes passion and dedication





start playing characters with in your gender and age range





see if there's an experience in your own life (or in the life of someone you know) that will connect you to the script.





relax and don't let your nerves get to you.