Acting : Sentences... by Alyn Darnay

(Alyn on Acting) If you study people, which as an actor you should be doing all day every day, you’ll quickly notice a huge diversity in the way sentences are formed and delivered. People have countless ways in which they express their thoughts and in the way they employ a seemingly limitless emotional vocabulary to articulate them. Learn to recognize, utilize and apply this vast expressive diversity in the preparation of your performances, because if you don’t or if you’re not an instinctual acting genius, how can you expect to lift your performance out of the one-dimensional range and into the realm of the believable?