The intent to live : achieving your true potential as an actor / Larry Moss
- Author
- Moss, Larry, 1943-
- Published
- New York : Bantam Books, 2005.
- Physical Description
- x, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Online Version
- Sample text: www.loc.gov
- Contents
- Given circumstances: building from the ground up -- Superobjective and objective: what do you want? -- My system of wants exercise -- Obstacle and intention: how will you get it? -- Stakes: what is it worth to you? -- Inner imagery: the life within -- Battling acting teachers: don't get caught in a senseless war -- Emotion on demand: finding your triggers; Memories of home exercise -- The actor's choice: creating your interpretation -- Defining and redefining your relationships -- In-character improvisation -- Destination, business, and gesture; Creating physical life for your character -- Back story and biography: believing your character's life -- The animal exercise: expanding your behavioral choices -- Place: the richness of where you are -- Cold, drunk, hot, sexy: using sensory work for character -- The physical sensation exercise -- Endowing objects, places, persons, and events -- The personal object exercise -- The moment before: starting the scene with life -- Moment to moment: it's always improvisation -- The repeat exercise -- Relaxation and overcoming fear -- The release exercise -- Voice, accents, and blood memory -- An actor's tipsheet for comedy -- Stage, screen, and TV: similarities, difference, traps -- How to work with a director or be your own director -- The power of yes -- When race, racial stereotypes, class, ethnicity, and sexuality become issues -- The story exercise: becoming the writer and star of your own play -- Confidence versus arrogance and the work ethic -- On being cool: a rant -- Breaking in and breaking out: how I learned not to be a demented puppy.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0553802070
- Note
- Includes index.
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