The Rules of Acting

What are the rules of acting? Well, there aren’t any.
Whatever works for you to get you into the moment and present and fully available emotionally is a way into acting. That’s life.
We often doubt our natural abilities because we listen to what the “experts” say—sometimes for years—thinking that if we don’t subscribe to a certain way, academia often teaches there must be something wrong with us.
So we spend an inordinate amount of time distrusting ourselves.
I know I can’t be a brain surgeon and cut someone’s head open without years of study and practice, so obviously, I advocate taking an acting class because of how much one can learn and grow. But some of the greatest actors have never taken a class or “studied” and they are just as honest as those coming out of a conservatory program.
There are no absolutes.
Acting isn’t a medical procedure. It’s not reducible to one simple method. All ways of working simply try to get the actor to be more honest. What I keep coming back to is applying life-isms to your approach to the work and you’ll find your way.
1. We only have a moment. The physics of life is

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