We have many talented people who want to be great actors in the movie industry. This reminds me of Konstantin Stanislavki System of training of actors.
According to Stanislavski, "an actor needs a soldier's discipline" to be great.
He said that it is the actor that breathes life into a written Script. The actor makes the Script tangible, alive, valid, and exciting.
Stanislavski believed that an actor without ethics is only a craftman, and without a technique he is a "dilettante".
Every actor must have a wide range of inspiration. When an actor is inspired he lives the character, this is done by experiencing the emotions of the character.
If an actor feels the emotion of the character he plays, the audience minds and feelings tend to be affected too.
Every actor should watch against: overacting, cliches and over use of mannerisms.
According to Stanislavski, an actor should never lose the feeling of real life and forget how to do the normal things he does everyday.
He said that actors:
1. Should learn to see, not pretend to see.
2. Should learn to hear, not pretend to listen.
3. Should talk to his fellow actors, not just read lines to them.
4. He should feel and think.
With the above, an actor would create a real human each time he is before a camera.
Stanislavski demands that every actor that wants to be great should constantly work on himself. It is a wrong notion to think that talented actors never work on themselves. Biogeaphies of a range of great actors proves the contrary. Every art demands regular practise and training.
So you do not sit at home or await a production to try to showcase what you have been known for, seek within yourself and fish out that which make you different and which will wow your fans, directors and colleagues each time you are before the camera.
What makes great actors is not too far from train, learn and creativity.
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