You Can Act!: A Complete Guide for Actors by Brown Brown

Author:Brown, Brown [Brown, Brown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781932907568
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Published: 2009-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

SECTION 2 PRINCIPLES FOR THE ACTOR

Chapter 1 Work On Self

Chapter 2 Persevere

Chapter 3 Develop Good Work Habits

chapter 1

Work on Self

KNOW YOURSELF

It’s said that the magnificent ancient Greek culture was based on two principles: Nothing too much (more on that later) and Know Yourself. As an artist it is your absolute, non-stop homework to study your own humanity. It’s the only real way to improve your sense of Truth and your appreciation for the Universal. Know the world by how it exists perfectly in yourself.

Knowing yourself improves your base of analysis for work on characters.

As the subject of your study, you must accept yourself exactly as you are at this moment, a work in progress. Live life affirmatively and begin to deepen yourself; feel your will to live, feel your harmony with Life; lucid, joining in, let each wave wash you a little further up the shore.

Here’s a good clue as to who you might be. What are those things you’re doing when you especially have that feeling that you shouldn’t be doing something else, where time flies, and you feel intensely alive. It could be you even feel a little scared that you could be in over your head. Maybe you don’t listen to it or you can’t believe it’s true, but there’s a little voice inside you saying at such times, “This is the real me!”

Come alive. It’s time to live while you’re alive. Get out from behind the mask you’ve built to conform to external definitions of who and what you are. Sure, society’s been doing its best to make you like everybody else, but you have to fight the good fight and be more of yourself, even when you can’t say what that is.

You’re going to have to face yourself some time. Why not now? If you’re honest with yourself, then maybe you’ll become less afraid of how your honesty will reveal your hidden selves to others. How can you be appreciated if you don’t let yourself be known. Great people (your audience) are happy and supportive to see you just as you are right now.

I’m not saying it won’t be frightening. You’re going to have to constantly say goodbye to the world you’ve always known. If you look at yourself truthfully, you’ll probably have to recognize yourself as the real reason for your limitations, and you won’t be able to lay the blame off on somebody else anymore. While blaming has no positive effect on the world, it does give you the rotten luxury of feeling you’re right, and when you give that up it can mean losing your identity and the illusion of safety it’s always given you. It may mean there’s still some grieving to do. You’re going to have to allow the unexpected into your life, and naturally, you are going to have to fight your desperate desire to cling to your illusions.

Moving toward maturity is always difficult because of the fear you have that you’ll miss out on your old pleasures, and

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