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New Thoughts for Actors !1 " " " " " " " " " " New Thoughts For Actors " by Jack Plotnick " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " September 5th, 2015 website: www.JackPlotnick.com email: [email protected] !2 "CONTENTS Section 1: THE POWER OF THOUGHT Actor Affirmations 3 The Vulture/Ego 5 The Journey To Self-Awareness 10 Focus On The Positive 13 About Your Higher Power 14 " A Higher Plan 15 Section 2: TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF What Is Your Job 18 When Someone Doesn’t Like You 21 Finding Your Inner Child 23 If It’s Hysterical, It’s Historical 25 " About Depression 27 Section 3: SECRETS TO SUCCESS Needing The Job 30 Want Vs. Need 31 How To Build A Career 33 Let The Universe Control 36 Story Of The Caterpillar 39 Tenacity 41 " Wish Everyone White Light 43 Section 4: APPROACHING YOUR ART The Student/Soldier 45 Be A Selfish Actor 48 There’s No Such Thing As ‘Nervous’ 53 The ‘Real’ Actor 55 The Director-Proof Actor 58 You Are The Character 59 Acting ‘Straight’ 63 Focus On The Meaning Of The Lines 66 Scene Comprehension 68 The Definition Of ‘Acting’ 73 The Secret To Acting 77 Acting ‘Technique’ 80 The Trap Of Making It ‘Real’ 84 " The Shortcut To Selfishness 87 Section 5: THE PERFORMANCE Issues With Lines 95 Thoughts Vs. Words 105 Take It From Where You Are 107 Acting In A Drama 111 Put The Circumstances In Your Stomach 117 There Is Only One Kind Of Acting 120 Magic Blank Spaces 126 Approach The Scene As If It Were An Improv 128 Preparing For An Audition 131 The Emotional Audition 143 Movement In Auditions 148 Lean Back, Look Up 153 At The Audition 155 There is No Such Thing as Failure 159 !3 Section 1: THE POWER OF THOUGHT " " ACTOR AFFIRMATIONS " My personal favorites for right before an audition or performance: · I release and destroy my need to get this job. · I am going to take it from where I am. However I’m feeling and however prepared I am is a fine place to begin this scene. · I release and destroy my need to control this scene. I know that I am not strong enough to control it, and therefore ask my higher power to lovingly guide me through it. · I am going to approach this scene as if it’s the ninth take (like an improv). · I release and destroy my need to be an “Actor”. Let the other people here be the “Actors” and have all the responsibilities that come with it. I am just here to be myself and enjoy playing in the circumstances. · (For Comedy) I release and destroy my need to be funny. I am just here to tickle myself with my own genuine human behavior. · (For Drama) I release and destroy my need to make choices, but more importantly I will allow choices to happen to me. · I release and destroy my need to impress them. I give myself permission to hate them. Fuck them. Daily affirmations: · I am grateful for all the good in my life. I am worthy of all the good in my life. · All is well in my world. I am one with the universe and have more than I need. · I am relaxed, trusting in a higher plan that is unfolding for me. · I release and destroy my attachment to results. I am here to enjoy the journey. !4 · I release and destroy my need to feel unworthy. I know that I am worthy of all the good in life and now lovingly allow myself to accept it. As I repeat this affirmation, my outer effect of procrastination fades away and I no longer feel the need to delay my own good. · This, or something greater, for my highest good, and the highest good of all concerned. · I forgive myself, unconditionally. I put these affirmations here, at the very beginning, to stress their importance. If you didn’t read another word I’ve written, you could still benefit greatly from these affirmations. " A friend of mine shared them with Sutton Foster, who was at the time playing the lead in the Broadway musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie”, and she wrote to me describing her experience: “During the long run of ‘Millie’ I was struggling so hard with the eight show a week and all of my demons and insecurities were getting the better of me. Seth shared with me your affirmations and I would read them every night before I went out on stage and remind myself of them while I was on stage. I hung the affirmations on my mirror at ‘Little Women’ as well, and they are now a permanent part of my dressing room collection. They got me through many 'rough and doubtful' times. So thank you.” – Sutton Foster (“Bunheads”, “Anything Goes” (Tony Award), “The Drowsy Chaperone” (Tony nominated), “Little Women” (Tony nominated), “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (Tony Award)) " I gave them to a friend of mine who works constantly, and she wrote me the following testimonial: "Ever since Jack Plotnick rescued me from the depths of audition despondence by introducing me to his affirmations, not an audition or stage performance goes by without me calling upon those wise and freeing words. Jack helped me remember that how we think about our work is just as important as the work itself." - Carrie Preston (“True Blood”, “The Good Wife” (Emmy Award)) Enjoy them. They can change your life. !5 THE VULTURE/EGO " A lot of people go around just letting their brain think whatever it likes. They don’t question the thoughts in their head. To them, the thoughts are there, and "therefore must be the truth. For instance, when you audition, you might think- “I’m not a good enough actor to get this part.” You hear this thought in your head, and you take it as truth. What you may not realize is that YOU put that thought there. Actually you have TWO voices in your head. There is your ego voice, which is anything that is fear based, "and you have your true voice, which is anything based in love. Everyone has an ego. Your ego is the half of you that wants you to fail. And will say whatever it can think of to get you to listen to it. Now, it just so happens that the ego voice is much stronger, simply because it gets more exercise. Don’t blame yourself, for it is human nature to think from the ego’s point of view. You have been making the choice to think from your ego for so long that it has become a habit, something you do without even thinking. Therefore, it seems to be the only "voice. Your true voice is much quieter. "It doesn’t get out much and when it does it is usually quickly silenced by your ego. Many people go their whole lives without realizing that they have self-identified strictly with their ego. But, by simply listening to your negative thoughts and self-talk, and acknowledging them as such, you create “the real you”; i.e. the one who is listening….the TRUE you. I’d like you to imagine moving that negative, fear-based and result-oriented ego voice out of your head, and see it instead as a vulture on your shoulder, squawking its "nonsense in your ear. You don’t ignore the vulture or pretend it’s not there. That would be like throwing a blanket over it, trying to pretend you don’t have one, with a desperate smile on your face saying- “Everything’s great! Doesn’t it look like everything’s great?!” -all the while walking around with a big vulture shaped blanket hump on your shoulder! Everyone has a vulture, so learn how to deal with him. Let him know that although you hear him, you are not interested in what he has to say. !6 So, let’s try some things: Let’s imagine your vulture says, “You’re not a good actor.” So you say, “Shut up, I’m not listening to you.” …Momentary silence. You’ve done it! The vulture shut up. But, hold on, the brain can’t stand not having a thought in it, and because your true voice is so weakened it’s just sitting there in the corner, muted. So, once again, the vulture squawks, “You’re a terrible actor!” So you think, “I’ll just tell it that he’s wrong.” And so you say to the vulture, “I am a terrific actor.” The vulture replies, “No, you’re a terrible actor!” “Terrific actor!” “Terrible actor!” …And this could go on for hours. Boy, do you look silly arguing with a vulture! And it is impossible to act if you are doing "so. If even a part of you doesn’t believe that you are a “terrific actor” then you will perceive that sentence as a lie. You cannot lie to your vulture, even if a part of you believes it to be true. Your vulture (ego) is a part of you. So, it is just as smart as you. And because it is human nature to want to be “right”, that vulture will argue his points. So you try something new: Your vulture says, “You’re not a good actor.” You reply, “I release my need to be a good actor.” The vulture replies, “Well, you’re not a good ac-” …He is dumbfounded. You’re not arguing anymore. He tries again ”You’re not a good actor.” You say, “I release and destroy my need to be a good actor.
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