Acting Lesson for Today

Okay, Boys and Girls.  Gather round.  I'm going to teach you a very valuable acting lesson.

If you are standing still and have no expression whatsoever on your face, you will draw just as much attention to yourself as the actor who is over-the-top acting.  Why?  Because your motionless existence draws the audiences' eyes because of your non-movement.   You'd think the person who is being totally crazy and over-the-top would draw more attention.  They do get more of the attention then the actors who are in the middle of the spectrum, but because they are engaged in the scene, they don't totally stick out (unless they are ruining the scene, but that's a lesson for a different day.)

So remember....be engaged in the scene or get off the stage.  It's as simple as that.  Yes, it's a little more complex than that.  But basically...that's it.