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December 30, 2006
Tim Smith's Five Rules of Acting
Tim Smith, the host of our new series of Greatest Stories web videos, said during the shoot: “I should tell you sometime about my five rules of acting, THEY”LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.” So on the last day I asked him to share, and he did. Now to be honest, I don’t know if these represent a carefully honed philosophy, or something made up on the spot. Either way, I like them, so here they are.
Tim’s 5 Rules of Acting
1) As an actor, you always need to look like there’s something going in your head. So imagine there are centipedes in your brain, and think about what that feels like.2) When you look at somebody, you should imagine there are laser beams going from your eyes to their eyes, and that are earthworms traveling on the laser beams from you to them.
3) Your hands should always be doing something that has nothing to do with what you are saying, or what the action is,
4) Imagine you are dancing on a candy shell underneath which there is a frozen version of hell.
5) Do all of the preceeding 4 at the same time.
Posted by rickbeyer at December 30, 2006 08:14 AM
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