The Acting Bible: The Complete Resource for Aspiring Actors

Professional acting is both an art and a business, and this book advises beginning actors on how to cope successfully on both fronts. Opening chapters describe the difficulties every budding actor encounters and explains basic acting techniques, which include memory exercises and methods for developing stage presence. Chapters that follow instruct in—


• Reading the play with understanding and learning to build the character that the actor will be portraying

• Developing the actor’s voice, imitating regional accents, and more

• Expressing the character’s thoughts and ideas through body posture and movement

• Adapting acting techniques to different media: stage, film, TV, and radio

• Learning the business side of acting by selling one’s talents effectively

The author strips away preconceptions and clichés often associated with acting, and pinpoints common mistakes that inexperienced actors need to overcome and avoid. More than 300 instructive illustrations.

Inside Acting Podcast - Bjorn Johnson

The Tao of Show Business: How to Pursue Your Dream Without Losing Your Mind

By Dallas Travers

The Tao of Show Business dispels the industry myths that keep actors stuck. This book generously offers a delightful, practical, and digestible approach to mastering the entertainment industry one day at a time.

Secrets of Screen acting

By Patrick Tucker

When it was first published in 1993, Secrets of Screen Acting broke new ground in explaining how acting for the camera is different from acting on stage. Reaction time is altered, physical timing and placement are reconceived, and the proportions of the film frame itself become the measure of all things. In this updated edition.

I'll be in my trailer: the creative wars between directors and actors

Authors John Badham, Craig Modderno

Beneath the entertaining and instructive war stories lies the truth: how directors elicit the best performances from difficult and terrified actors. You'll learn how to use proven techniques to get actors to give their best performances - including the ten best and ten worst things to say - and what you can do when an actor won't or can't do what the director wants.

The Success Creed

This is a short 'exercise' that can help you to get

where you want to go.

Simply say these words each day - until they become

second nature.

I got this from another website.

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The Success Creed


I have decided to succeed.

I now know that this decision is critical - it will

determine the results I get.

Furthermore, I have decided to succeed wildly.

I will make enough money to become financially secure

and comfortable - with plenty left over to do good

and make a real difference in the lives of people I

love.

Because I know that it takes just as much effort to

think big as it does to think small - I will think

big. I will also work hard - very hard.

Success that is permanent and sustained will require

massive effort on my part.

Overnight success is a fiction.

I cannot plan for fictional success.

Reality is not optional.

The secret to achieving my goals is my own belief that

I can do it. Once I am in this frame of mind, I have

already won.

All that remains to do is to execute my plan.

It's not what I achieve in the end that matters - it's

who I become in the process.

Failure is just an event.

(Repeat as needed.)

Looking for a good monologue ?

Here is a good site if you are looking for a monologue. It also has a link to other monologues sites. Enjoy !

Colin's Movie Monologue page: http://www.whysanity.net/monos?

The Actors Vow

I thought I would share it with you and it may just be something that influences your acting life.

The Actors' Vow
From Elia Kazan

“I will take my rightful place on stage
and I will be myself.
I am not a cosmic orphan.
I have no reason to be timid.
I will respond as I feel;
awkwardly, vulgarly,
but respond.
I will have my throat open,
I will have my heart open,
I will be vulnerable.
I may have anything or everything
the world has to offer, but the thing
I need most, and want most,
is to be myself.

I will admit rejection, admit pain,
admit frustration, admit even pettiness,
admit shame, admit outrage,
admit anything and everything
that happens to me.

The best and most human parts of
me are those I have inhabited
and hidden from the world.
I will work on it.
I will raise my voice.
I will be heard.”