How do I get over stage fright and how can I improve my acting on my own?

Question

I really want to become a famous actress. Yeah, unrealistic, but I at least want to give it a shot. I`m not stage fright, but if it happens during an audition or something, how do I deal with it? Also, I can`t join a theater program for a few months, so what can I do to improve my acting now? I don`t usually have someone to help me or do it with me and I don`t have a script, so I`m lost and I really want to practice.

Answer 1

Hey,
First of all, that's not an unrealistic goal, you have to start somewhere. Secondly, a great practice for acting is to create a situation or go off of a script in front of the mirror, you will then familiarize yourself with your expressions (what looks good and what doesn't) and your overall performance. As time goes on you will then become more comfortable to express yourself, more comfortable to "perform" in front of people. Performance is all an issue with ones self, the more practice you get the more confidence you achieve. Good luck and follow-up with me, I hope I helped.

-Ski

Answer 2

Stage fright is really common - I've had it a lot when I first started going out to sing Karaoke in public :)
One way to get over it is just do it anyway - fright and all. After you've done that a few times, the stage fright gets less and less, and after a while it disappears.
If you don't have access to a theater group, you can practice at home in front of a mirror. This way, you can watch yourself as though you were watching another person act, and you can sort of critique yourself.
Something that helps me a lot when I experience stage fright and it gets really uncomfortable: I say to myself: "F'em if they can't take a joke!" This takes the pressure off. Not every body has to like you if you like yourself. And, if you're having an audition and they don't accept you, it doesn't have to be about YOU. Some times you're just not 'right' for THAT part, but you'll be right for another.
Another good thought to keep is this: "Everything worth doing doesn't have to be done perfectly - at first". This is a quote from the book "The One Minute Manager".
Remember: even after the worst rejection, you'll still be alive to give it another go.
So you want to go to as many auditions as you can!
Here's another good thought: "Go ahead, make my day!"
Imagine the fear as a person who is harrassing you and then stare it down.
Here's another method: Think about the last time someone criticized you. Replay that 'audio' in your mind. Now "play" it on fast-forward so it sounds like Mickey Mouse talking. Then "play" it real slow. Play it fast and slow until it makes you laugh - trust me, it will! Then, when you remember the unkind words, they will no longer make you feel bad. This is an NLP technique you can do with yourself.
If you don't have a script, just use a book of any sort. A book with a story you like. Then pick your favorite character out of the book and enact a scene. Do this in front of a mirror, see how it looks.

You can post notes saying you'd like to form a practice acting group locally - maybe in your school, at a laundrymat or in a free newspaper. There are probably more people like you who have a dream of acting.
Some may have ambitions like you for becoming famous and some may just want to do it for fun. Keep the fun in it, don't get too anxious right away.
By the way, your dream is NOT impossible. If you are serious about making it come true, you can. Stay with it and keep asking questions - here and elsewhere. Find like-minded people to hang with.
Good luck, and send me a free ticket to your first show, will you?

Answer 3

This is deep in you. Out in the world if you are shy you think a lot and don't act. Acting takes place when t he thinking part must break loose and do something about what it wants whether on the world's stage or the theater's stage.
Drink deeply of your feelings. Express them out loud. Read book aloud, with pauses, take one line and read it and then put the book down and express what it means. Do it another way with deeper feelings. Walk about your stage mumbling it and get progressively louder or softer angrier or indifferent. Then you feel the line's possibilities. Then go on with the rest of the script be it play poem or news story. Hear someone speak back to each line and then improvise your own answer. Sing your answer. Acting =Action =living =feeling. Stage fright is an action of deep passion. Incorporate it into your presentation. Ler it lead you. You will soon be unaware of an audience or waiting for an acting class. You will have done astral traveling to the heart of being in the moment, traveling from moment to moment. This is a very evolved theory of "being or becoming an actor." It is the muse in you that lifts you to where you ask to be.

Answer 4

Stage Fright occurs because YOU give the audience control over yourself. You care about what they think, when they are caring about what you are thinking. Remember your an actor so even if you do look like an idiot you are acting its not the real you. if you want to improve your acting concentrate on all the emotions available to us. Happy, sad, scream, curse etc. Watch movies and identify where these emotions are portrayed and watch it over and over. Go and practice it infront of a mirror, trust me practice makes perfect and the more you practice the better you will become. So remember the audince cares more about you than what you should care about them. Try making a really tight fist really tight and that should stop the shaking the rest is all psychological and its a mountain you can only climb alone. With the help of God obviously.

Answer 5

Practice breathing techniques that can help stabilize the increase of energy (excitement, nervousness) in your body. Part of this practice is going to as many auditions as possible. (Go to the ones you don't care about getting, too!) While at the audition - take three to five deep breaths to help circulate the energy flow in your body. Acquire a "I'm here for the fun of it" attitude and go for it.
How to improve your acting on your own? Buy a digital camera and tape yourself acting. Watch and experiment - taping yourself - over and over again. Go to the library and get some material for scripts.
Have fun!

Answer 6

Oh there is no worry to worry about the audience, you can never be an actor/actress if you never get over the fear. You will have to learn how to get over people's opinions, that is what is holding you back. I have never been afraid to just step on the stage, but oh boy have i felt stupid doing somethings on stage, but it makes people laugh,and that's all you can wish for. The audience makes the production alive, without audience, all it is, is you and the theatre.
Think of broadway, and the best actresses. All you have to do is believe in yourself, that is REALLY how you train yourself, to learn how to get over what other people think, good luck =]! If i've been able to do it, you can!

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Stand in front of the mirror and recite the alaphabet over and over again , speaking properly and enunciating every sound. Work on your posture and your balnce to make sure you carry yourself with ease and grace. Practise breathing deeply in through your nose and out your mouth taking only one breath and saying as many words as you can on one breath. Breathing properly helps you control nervousness and the rest is all confidence and preperation.
Go to the library and take out poems and sonnets and plays by famous playrites. Know all the authours and titles of all kinds of different writings from different eras'. All this will help you when you begin to take training so that you be more likely to be succesful.

Answer 9

Ahhh easy.

First, every time you pass a mirror, smile, yes a big smile.

For practice, in the mirror.....start talking and see the inflection in your voice ...and see the expressions change....then try to make the expressions match whatever you read.

Take poetry, advertisements, or anything you want, and read it to yourself in the mirror. ...change your voice inflection, and change your facial expressions.