Sunday, January 27, 2013

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I read the book "A Practical Handbook for the Actor." It is hard for me to relate with a lot of the things the author says since I just started acting but I can imagine a lot of the things he says about teachers not teaching correctly. I haven't had that experience with acting but I have in other aspects of my life. A quote that really stuck out to me was "talent, if it exists at all is completely out of your control. Whatever talent might be, you either have it or you don't, so why waste energy worrying about it? The only talent you need to act is a talent for working" I really loved that quote it reminded me of Luke and my art instructor at camp. They both really spoke about practicing and working hard and how they both get you further in life rather then the guy who relies on his/her talent. That just really connects with all arts and basically everything in life. I also really like how it says you can't control your feelings. I feel that that is one of main problems when it comes to acting. I am really focused on how I am supposed to be feeling rather than things about what I actually have to be doing in the scene. I'll be posting more intriguing posts from the book soon!
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  1. Luke DeLalioJanuary 27, 2013 at 10:01 PM

    Excellent post.

    While feelings are important in acting, they're so hard to deal with that your better off leaving them alone and simply having them. And really, if you look at how your own real life works, you'll see that emotions are almost always the result of something, usually related to frustration. As an example, you feel happy when you get your way or accomplish something, and angry or sad when you don't get your way or you fail, or things simply get difficult. When you're yelling at your boyfriend, you aren't thinking about your emotions - if you did, you'd probably stop yelling! And if you think of all the times you cry, you'll realize that usually when you're crying you're actually trying NOT to cry.

    How could YOUR acting function anyway different than the way YOU function 99% of the time?

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