How to start with acting skills

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Acting is about playing characters. Characters are people that are different from you. If you’re playing Shrek, you have to be Shrek but you can’t be you. It has to be different. Acting is about playing the characters that has been assigned to you. If you’re a tom boy but now you’re playing seductive Katy, you will need to learn how to play seductive Katy. Acting is about playing characters. You will need to research about those in order to play it out well.

Acting is about creating emotions that are appropriate for your characters. It will all depends on your character types. If your character is a business man, you will need to shows the emotions, gestures and languages that are associated with business man. If your character is a mean old woman, you will need to portray those too. You will need to know how to portray all the emotions, language, gestures associated with your characters. If you don’t do it then it doesn’t look like your character.

You have to walk, talk, feel, think like your character. This is acting. For example, a doctor would walk with his body erect and his tone of voice is loud and demanding. He is in charge. He tells his patients what to do. A homeless man will walk with his head droop down and he might talk in a quiet, tired tone of voice and he’s not demanding. He’s not in charge. Acting takes a lot of courage and freedom from within. It's hard to be an actor if you're courageous or have plenty of freedom from within. Acting will be very difficult for shy people. It's hard for shy people to open up. If you are going to act, you will need to open up more and be less restrictive. There will be exercise for you to do so that you won't be shy anymore. Acting can be fun and lucrative if you really prepare yourself for it.