How can you deal with making a fool of yourself in acting?

January 9, 2009 on 12:55 pm | By | In bluefreesky.com | How can you deal with making a fool of yourself in acting?
  • find your inner idiot!


  • Become Robbie Williams. Oh, you said acting.


  • There isn't a hard and fast rule, or three steps I can give you to feel comfortable being ridiculous. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth, go, and ignore the part of your brain that's screaming, "Stop it! You look dumb! Everyone's watching! Hey, stop that RIGHT NOW!" After a while, it realises you aren't going to stop, and shuts up. The more comfortable you are with yourself, the faster that will happen. Just remember that everyone who's watching you knows it's a performance and wants to be entertained - they know you're playing a character. If they wanted to see you act like you act every day, they'd stalk you. When you're in class, just remember that everyone else has to do the same thing. And don't you have more fun watching someone else who's being silly and having fun than watching someone just be themselves?


  • undressing and strip tease audience


  • Be funny, and have a laugh, I would rather be the funny one everybody loves and cheers on than the one that gets shy and will not act properly, so its an opportunity to be the funny guy! Trust Me!


  • I always think that I leave myself behind the curtain and the Character I'm portraying walks on the stage.

    I have done many things on stage that are completely out of my character. I full on cringe when I watch the video/s but the audience love these characters and that's what it is about.

    When you act you do what you are asked to do, eventually you become comfortable doing the ridiculous.


  • If you really want to get over stage fright, there is something else that your drama classes and your teacher can help you with and that is a concept called â ˜public solitude.â ™ If you can, take a GOOD acting class. (If you are an actor, you should be taking regular classes anyway.) They will teach you that. You learn how to develop public solitude, which is really feeling comfortable in any situation and being able to block out everything around you and focus solely on â ˜beingâ ™ the character you are interpreting and on your scene partner. The exercise and acting classes in general will help you to feel more comfortable in front of people while performing. Something else that is crucial for how to get over stage fright is that you need to focus on what you want and not on what you don't want. You need to focus your mind on what being focused and comfortable in your scene will be like and not on the things you are afraid will happen if you mess up. Why? What will that do for you? Let me give you an example.

    If I tell you right now, "Don't think about a pink elephant! Don't think about it!" What's the first thing that comes into your mind? You don't have to tell me, because I already know. It's the yellow elephant isn't it? Why is that? Because that's how the human brain works. That's how your brain works. In order to forget something, our brain first has to understand what it is supposed to forget. How does it do that? By first bringing it to the forefront and creating an image around it. So what does that have to do with your feeling comfortable while speaking? Everything!

    If you are serious about wanting to know how to get over stage fright and at the same time you tell yourself before you go into the audition or during any performance itself things like; "I hope I don't mess up, I hope I don't get nervous. I hope I don't forget anything. I hope I don't freeze in front of the group.", you are putting yourself in a position to think about what you don't want. Your imagination will go there and recreate that image of all those negative things you keep telling yourself. Your focus is on the wrong things! You said you wanted to know how to get over stage fright, so now you know what you have to do? What kinds of things will you tell yourself the next time you go into a performance or an audition? Positive things! Good things! You will give a great performance! You will be very comfortable in front of your audience! See yourself doing that. If you have to, close your eyes, BREATHE deeply before you go in and visualize yourself being brilliant. How confident will you be while you are performing? You know your lines. You know what you have to do. You are in the character. You feel it! You can see that you feel what you are acting! You are confident and you will be brilliant!


  • yeah thats why its called acting


  • That sounds like 'How do I not feel ashamed'.

    No-one can actually make you feel ashamed. Shame is brought about by self-condemnation. People shame themselves, by inwardly saying things like 'other people must like me and if they don't it proves I am a complete prat'

    The answer is self-acceptance. Some people will like me, some will not. Sometimes I will be great and other times I will be useless. I am an imperfect fallible human being. When I underperform and mess up I am still worth the same.


  • If you feel like a fool then you're doing it right. If you would laugh at what your doing & saying then the audience will laugh twice as hard!







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