Why do we do it?
Mon, 9 June 2003, 05:35 pmWalter Plinge17 posts in thread
Why do we do it?
Mon, 9 June 2003, 05:35 pmWhat is that makes us want to have a career as an actor? Why do we need to act?
Personally it is the need to express myself fully through a character that interests me. The need to play and share that with someone else.
Then there is getting a chance to do things that you can't normally do in real life.
It's a chance to bring your creativity to life.
The journey you take as you explore these strange new worlds.
It's fun, it's challenging, it's interesting and it's an art where you never stop learning.
What about you?
Personally it is the need to express myself fully through a character that interests me. The need to play and share that with someone else.
Then there is getting a chance to do things that you can't normally do in real life.
It's a chance to bring your creativity to life.
The journey you take as you explore these strange new worlds.
It's fun, it's challenging, it's interesting and it's an art where you never stop learning.
What about you?
Re: Why do we do it?
Wed, 11 June 2003, 08:32 amWalter Plinge
Thank you Leah, a brilliantly insightful statement. The first person in this dialogue to really contribute something of weight, and yet, still no one has come up with the other big one...
I may not be as eloquent as Leah, but I'm gonna try...
I don't act because I want to act.
I act because I NEED to act!
It is not a conscious decision, it is an unconscious drawing, like a Lemming to a cliff!
The only way I can put it is that Theatre is a lot cheaper than Therapy!
I am drawn to acting because in my complex and confusing life, it gives me moments where I can escape from myself. For a couple of hours every couple of nights I get to leave myself, my psyche and my problems at the door and find out what life is like for other people.
I sometimes think I live vicariously through theatre.
A Director once made the comment to me that he had rarely met someone who NEEDED to act more than I did. Those of you who have met me, but don't KNOW me, may be surprised to find that I really am HIDEOUSLY shy. If I am in a group of people that I don't know well, it takes me forever to come out of my shell (although once out its hard to put me back).
People reading this wrongly have often accused me of being aloof almost snobbish.
Walk into a theatre that I know, however, and I become a totally different person.
Put me on stage and I will live someone elses life to the fullest!
On stage I am suave, debonair, charming, confident, outgoing, even dare I say irresistable (compelling?)
Off stage I am quiet, reserved, bumbling, insecure.
The only other time that I truly become someone else is at the soccer, but as Stephen will tell you, that in itself is just another form of theatre (or is it we who are just another form of sport?)
If I couldn't act, I'd probably have to go back to playing Dungeons and Dragons...
Paul Treasure
I may not be as eloquent as Leah, but I'm gonna try...
I don't act because I want to act.
I act because I NEED to act!
It is not a conscious decision, it is an unconscious drawing, like a Lemming to a cliff!
The only way I can put it is that Theatre is a lot cheaper than Therapy!
I am drawn to acting because in my complex and confusing life, it gives me moments where I can escape from myself. For a couple of hours every couple of nights I get to leave myself, my psyche and my problems at the door and find out what life is like for other people.
I sometimes think I live vicariously through theatre.
A Director once made the comment to me that he had rarely met someone who NEEDED to act more than I did. Those of you who have met me, but don't KNOW me, may be surprised to find that I really am HIDEOUSLY shy. If I am in a group of people that I don't know well, it takes me forever to come out of my shell (although once out its hard to put me back).
People reading this wrongly have often accused me of being aloof almost snobbish.
Walk into a theatre that I know, however, and I become a totally different person.
Put me on stage and I will live someone elses life to the fullest!
On stage I am suave, debonair, charming, confident, outgoing, even dare I say irresistable (compelling?)
Off stage I am quiet, reserved, bumbling, insecure.
The only other time that I truly become someone else is at the soccer, but as Stephen will tell you, that in itself is just another form of theatre (or is it we who are just another form of sport?)
If I couldn't act, I'd probably have to go back to playing Dungeons and Dragons...
Paul Treasure
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