Why Acting Is So Much More Than It Appears to Be
For many people, acting appears to be people talking while getting emotional, which is why so many people think they can do it. No one imagines waking up one day and being a professional singer or pianist. But for actors, they say, "acting is hard only one has to memorize lines, if I could remember, I could be an actor, too."
But acting isn't just about memorizing lines and talking in conversational reality. As Meisner said, "Acting is doing things truthfully under imaginary circumstances." If (understand) correctly, this definition is an ambitious and remarkable thing to strive for.
To do things truthfully, actors must acquire many challenging skills . these skills, the script will remain flat on the page, despite being recited out loud. To make a script come to life in a believable way, the actor make active choices.
Imagine for a moment how many different ways there are (deliver) one single line. Even something as simple as "close the door" can mean so many different things and (express) in so many different ways. The words are the writer's, but the behavior brings them to vivid life? That is the actor.
The goal of great actors? That's to act naturally. Good quality acting must always come down to a kind of naturalness that makes those acting skills (visible) to the audience. In other words, a good actor must not appear to be acting at all.
So do not be fooled into thinking that can read and speak can be an actor. The naturalness displayed by great actors is exactly what makes you think that way, but it took them years of training to get to this point. It is so much more than you know.
