Actors learn to express themselves as their development occurs. Actors start to understand what it is to have emotion and express how they feel in the real time happening of the scene. Learning craft to express themselves without overdoing their expression takes experience able to be gotten from a classroom.

Of course, letting the emotion speak for itself when it does is key.

Some Quotes from this article:
“You want to gain experience by expressing yourself.”
” Building a relationship with your own emotion is part of learning how to express.”
” There will be a quieter mind when emotions start to form from feelings and thoughts.“

Copyright 2021 Simon Blake

Expression is the release of Feelings AND Emotion

IT is key to understand that the Actor releases the Feelings and the Emotion without anticipating the result. Unexpected surprises in the work of acting create realism.

Training yourself to release Feelings and allow them to come and go of their free will is a huge step in Actors learning to express themselves.

Emotions are similar but much deeper than feelings. Feelings tend to be fleeting and will come and go faster then emotions. Emotions will stay longer generally and encompass the Actor in a way that will not quickly leave the Actor once worked with.

Learning the Express oneself as an Actor is teaching oneself to release the experience rather than holding onto the experience. Releasing it means you have freedom in your acting. Once you develop your ability to release with freedom in your work you will then develop craft as an actor using Emotional Techniques to achieve desired areas of work.

Actors learn to express themselves with both feelings and emotions. Emotions are deeper than feelings but work together in acting technique.

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Difficulties with Actors learn to express themselves

The Difficulties with Actors learn to express themselves is to release personal restriction within the Actor. Personal restriction will hold back the expression.

Discipline in acting is at advanced stages the ability to train yourself to be open rather than contrived.

It is key for the Actors to learn that expressing themselves means to avail themselves to options of the real time experience in acting. Availing themselves as Actors will achieve more involvement in the craft of acting.

When an Actor avails themselves, they are taking in the experience yet in real time not predetermining the outcome of the experience. It is key in being present in acting not to predetermine the outcome of the experience.

Learning Implies gaining Experience

Whether you gain experience with others in a classroom or practice techniques that build up your ability to express yourself on your own the topic involves ‘experience’. Experience is key to committing yourself to learn how to achieve.

You want to gain experience in expressing yourself and there are main ways you can achieve this. Actors learn to Express themselves with emotions to spark an emotional range into activation just before starting the scene.

Actors learn to express themselves in all sorts of ways. The list of acting exercises that can be done on your own is extensive.

List of Exercise to help Expression

Reading newspaper or magazine outload
Reading script ideas to your pet or stuffed animal
Communicating an idea to a recording camera

List of Emotional Preparations to rehearse with is below.

Taking a look at exercises that help you build your emotional expression is helpful to achieve goals. The goals of learning expression should include listening to yourself to learn when the emotion does the work for you and pay attention to when it is truthfully activated within you.

Realizing that emotion does not want to be seen is key to realizing your ability to work with emotion. Building a relationship with your own emotion is part of learning how to express. Your relationship with your internal self composes your expressions. This later and directly ties into differentiating your feelings from your emotions.

Recognizing when you have started to feel more than just feelings internally is an absolute need to achieve deep work consistently. You can recognize that something inside of you went deeper than just a fleeting feeling. You will also notice you will not struggle to contain the emotion once it arrives because it will encompass you.

When a feeling starts to resonate, you may feel it one moment and then not the next. When an emotion starts to resonate you will be encompassed by an overall blanket. It will feel like you no longer have fleeting indecision about the items you were internally with when emotions start to settle internally.

When emotions form from feelings, thoughts and ideas indecision will seize. Feelings, Thoughts and Ideas will start to become self-evident as emotions settle inside of yourself. There will be a quieter mind when emotions start to form from feelings and thoughts.

Brave Actors learn to Express Themselves

Brave Actors learn to express themselves. It takes the merit and achievement of being willing to be brave to do acting. It takes gumption to allow yourself to learn habits of personal expression. Often personal expression may be emotionally correct but politically incorrect.

Teaching yourself that you are in an artistic space and allowed to exercise truthful self-expression is the goal of many artistic endeavors. Even when in such an environment it takes time to learn how to achieve acting because being honest with how you are affected in real time takes practice to achieve.

Actors learn to express themselves with Emotions with Emotional Preparations.

Encourage yourself to be brave with your own personal emotional comments. This is how actors learn to express themselves.

Small list of Emotions

agitated
excited
anger
rage
protection
internal pain or angst
emotional hurt
disregard for another
suppression or suffrage
interest or intrigue (feeling not emotion usually)
dishonesty
defeated
hate
forgiving
love
kindness

Copyright 2021, Simon Blake

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