[Vaun]

(07-31-2013 12:24 PM)Nolecbo Wrote:  

(07-31-2013 09:43 AM)puckman Wrote:  

in NYC I want to try Upright Citizens Brigade.

I was thinking the same.

This is open right now, anyone else interested?

it is but i think there is a waiting list. something I have always wanted to do but never made the time for

[V6Wrestler]

Nice, I am planning on taking acting class.

Mainly for public speaking etc

[Purple Urkle]

As a classically trained actor with lots of experience, I would give this advice to nine out of ten people interested in the craft: "Stay out of school." Get into a play... the audience will teach you how to act.

Get a video camera, learn CLASSICAL monologues (comedy and drama) and film yourself. Repeat 10,000 times. Have you gotten any better? Yes you have. Good actors learn to direct themselves (just like good alphas). They need no one but another willing and enthusiastic actor or non-actor to run lines and scenes with (a.k.a. a wingman).

Acting is not an emotional art form it is a physical art form. Train your voice and body (see how this relates to game?). Dialects, fencing, dance, singing. Develop sensitivity in your instrument. Work on developing calm attention to detail and an iron clad memory. Work on LISTENING with not just your ears but with your entire body.

Read David Mamet's "True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for Actors" and Uta Hagen's "Respect for Acting." Read Mamet's book first.

Acting is good for game. Forgetting your lines while naked in front of 500 people is an excellent exercise in humility and getting over the fear of rejection during the cold approach.

If you want to practice improv then write ten minutes of stand up material, master it (100 hours of rehearsal) and then hit every open mic in town. Do not tell anybody. Roll dolo. When you start getting laughs and feeling comfortable going off script THEN start inviting friends. Remember... the secret to acting is to always have s secret (you'll understand this concept better after about a year of study).

There is an exception to this advice... if you live in LA study with Howard Fine. Do anything to get in his class. He allows some students to work off their tuition by answering phones and cleaning the rehearsal rooms. You need a present or former student to give you a reference to even be considered for an audition to get into the school.

I am a teacher so it pains me to say this but with acting this is particularly true: "Those who can't do, teach." Beware of all the charlatans in this area of study who will emotionally masterbate to your inability to "correctly" smell some "invisible" cup of coffee. F#$k that sh*t... the audience will teach you how to act. Stay out of school.

[TheCaptainPower]

Even better than acting lessons, dancing lessons....

[The apt pupil]

I actually started taking a class last month . Hot girls in droves . Definitely a confidence booster when you nail a scene.

[Repo]

I always thought it would be fun to try. Unfortunately at my school all the classes were full of weirdos who had their own little cliques. Would be nice to try acting classes with just some normal people.

[Pareto]

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[puckerman]

Yes, yes, yes.

I have been telling guys for years to get into acting classes. It's high-quality women. They are usually fairly smart and good-looking. And they are often very open-minded about age disparity.

Women in acting classes hardly have any bitch shields up at all. They are supportive, and you can be supportive of them. Women in acting classes never freak out when they are given compliments, and they embrace their femininity.

It will build your game as well. Do it.

[Heart Break Kid]

Very easy place to get girls and it will also help with confidence. I took an acting class in community college and got this banging Nigerian chick who was a dancer with a gigantic rack, also got a girl who was half colombian/turkish who was a little chunky for my taste but very pretty.

Girls are very receptive in acting classes for obvious reasons, everyone is exposing their insecurities and opening up too each other. Acting classes are a great way to make friends in general.

[jariel]

This thread along with a lot of others that have been coming up lately seem to miss the point.

I have taken improv classes, and I did so because I was actually interested in it, and had been for a while. None of the girls in the class were anything above a 6, at least that was my experience, the real talents (who are also of above average attractiveness) aren't taking the class at some community center.

I have also had the fortune of dating real, working actresses.

They, along with singers, poets, dancers, and other forms of entertainers are often bat-shit crazy, they also are easy lays, but that's because of proximity.

Most women end up dealing with guys due to proximity. They hook up with guys they work with, go to school with, live by, or any other thing that forms a connection between them and the guy, which by default makes them at least acquaintances.

When you step to a girl from your acting class or any other similar setting, she's not viewing you as a stranger. Also because you know already know you're going to see each other again, you don't have to run 0 to 100 game, you can actually just be on some cool shit, and again, by the time you make your move, she's not viewing you as just some stranger who is trying to fuck her.

This whole thread and others like it ignore that the game isn't about acting, dancing, or whatever else the topic is, it's all about proximity.

[BossOfBosses]

I've noticed that some people like to come into every thread and just say the opposite of what is being said.

[Moma]

I think that acting will help game. Game in the West is about a pretense. The more you act, the better you are at pretending. I always see sales as being similar and I used to wonder why salesmen claim to struggle at game. Understanding the principles of just opening and ABC (Always be Closing) should work in one's favour UNLESS they are gruesome.

One of the guys I know opens a lot. He doesn't care about percentages, he's almost like a butterfly, the way he flits from one to the other. He always has food on the plate as a result. My personal flaws in game is generally not putting out a consistent effort. Some days, I'm on and other days I'm grumpy and withdrawn.

The point being said is that acting allows one to understand how to get into character and engage the lizard in fantasy. Bring her into your fantasy world and lay her. Lizards usually operate under fantasy and the art world is filled with lizardly mentalities so this would give one further insight into it.

For the record, I am actually entering something new this year that is akin to acting and I can feel the change already. I'm able to tap into my creative element and say some silly shyt to lizards to engage them. Being an immigrant (Samseau, please don't report me!!), I still have to fully tap into the American wavelength in my particular city and this helps me to accomplish this and merge it with my British framework.