performance

Don't love your performance, love...

     Rehearsal is not only to improve your performance. It's also to condition reflex.

1. All work has to be hidden.
2. Con yourself it is going to be a great performance.
3. Bury all the work, conceal work.
4. Difference in life and performance, in performance you have to be audible. In life, you don't have to worry.
5. Don't be off balanced as actor, exercise, sense of self: I am a star, say I am brilliant, have a larger ego. When you act your territory has to be bigger. Fill the enormous space.
6. Don't do things under insecurity, audience is not interested in actor.
7. Don't fall in love with your performance.
8. Don't give 100% do 90%, 10% in the hole.
9. Don't have performance in mind, have character in mind. Don't fall in love with your performance.
10. Don't waste things together; one thing at a time.
11. During a performance the actor must not think of the story or think  about the dialogue, but only think objective.
12. Emotion up to performance level.
13. Every part is not what the actor does easily. If acting is being other people, you don't carry from part to part what ever the hell worked for you last time. You have to make a human being you have to make somebody recognizable and acceptable to an exact person.
14. Feeling person all the time: performing.
15. Find interesting things to do then stay with it.
16. Find your own part.
17. Ideal performance in our expectation.
18. It is not about you, it is about her, have the performance comes from the other person. That is the part you are leaving out, you were not aware of her at all. You were busy showing your character. It all comes from her.
19. Love poetry not your poems. Not to be in love with your performance.
20. Love your art, don't fall in love with your performance.
21. Make it littler for the camera. Watch good performance, how they do things minimal and very, very quietly. It's all inside the actor.
22. Never be dull and workman like.
23. Overacting. Two actors enjoying their performance. You're a fool, boy. Have to be in real love with each other. We are moved by people who are moved.
24. Perform: you must be on, pronounce each syllable, don't mumble.
25. Performance (turn on lights).
26. Performance is like a strip tease. The whole thing is foreplay, just maybe, not yes.
27. Play period have perfect posture.
28. Remember, half of your performance comes from the other person.
29. To make it work: take life and make it bigger. Beyond performance size.
30. Watch good performance, how they do things minimal and very, very quietly. It's all inside the actor.
31. Weren't on, weren't performing.
32. Work on presence. Sense of importance.
33. You do the best you know how to do and you learn the best way to do it, then it's possible to have a career in the best light.

"In the end, it can't look like acting."