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?
Why did we start it?
Thu, 12 June 2003, 08:17 amI have no idea where the desire to act and perform ever came from, but if you were to listen to my parents, it was there from the begining. At an age where I still really didn't have a grasp of the english language, you could shove a mic in my hand (while it was attached to a tape recorder mind you) and I would gabber away talking and interviewing, Singing and Dancing, and so forth. My parents have had GREAT pleasure in toruring me with this in later years and even to this day bring it up.
I guess I had always had a desire to Play Pretend so to speak. When we moved from a small outback town (back then) to the BIG SMOKE of Perth, I became very shy and quiet. I participated in Oliver dureing Primary School and was put-off theatre by the sheer EMBARESSMENT and TEASING. Poor country hick! ;-)
It was during my High-school at a Youth Group that someone demonstrated Theatre Sports. I think my fire was rekindled. I joined a Youth Theatre Group and off we went.
Now, I have a daughter, I have sadly put theatre on a shelf for now, but I have not forgotten. As I watch Hayley, I think of the stories my parents had about me., and she's a far better singer and dancer than me already. She's not even two.
Jeff "The Big Daddy" Watkins
I guess I had always had a desire to Play Pretend so to speak. When we moved from a small outback town (back then) to the BIG SMOKE of Perth, I became very shy and quiet. I participated in Oliver dureing Primary School and was put-off theatre by the sheer EMBARESSMENT and TEASING. Poor country hick! ;-)
It was during my High-school at a Youth Group that someone demonstrated Theatre Sports. I think my fire was rekindled. I joined a Youth Theatre Group and off we went.
Now, I have a daughter, I have sadly put theatre on a shelf for now, but I have not forgotten. As I watch Hayley, I think of the stories my parents had about me., and she's a far better singer and dancer than me already. She's not even two.
Jeff "The Big Daddy" Watkins
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