An old speech

"Everyone should study drama and act at least once in their life-or, if they want to experience it even more, they can.
Drama is another way of teaching in front of others.
For example, suppose you want to get a successful job, or want to be an important representative of a company. Then it is required of you to learn how to preform before anywhere from fifty to maybe millions of people, depending on what you are doing. Drama can help you with this challenge if you're willing to try it. Acting lessons can help bring your performance up to an extraordinary level, building your confidence in so many ways.

Think about it: What if you are playing someone who's brave and heroic, like a knight in shining armor on a quest to slay the dragon and save the lovely princess from her prison? That kind of experience will help you know how to act braver and more confident.

Furthermore, real acting is not just about taking on someone else's personality for a brief time, but about going deeper. You have to understand the character. If you can do that in a dramatic setting, like a play, then you improve your ability to understand not just yourself, but others as well.

Let me explain. The actors who play your favorite characters in books, plays, movies, or television series are people who are able to bring someone to life, from their "unreal" world into yours. In any dramatic production, what is taking place is the character's vision of the world he or she lives in. When you watch a movie of Harry Potter and his favorite school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the special effects you are seeing that you know are an illusion are REAL for character. When the One is dodging bullets from the agent's guns inside the computer called the Matrix, the action makes the character more alive; how he behaves shows you more of his personality. With the hunting knife from the murder named Ghost Face in the Scream saga, the costume prop gives the character the vision and allows you to visualize the character. The robes Gandalf the Grey wear in the Hobbit help you understand what it could like to walk the world as Gandalf.

My point is once you have acting experience, you will learn to understand more things in life then you already do.

Being an actor means you have to care about your character and give it emotion, give it life and allow the people to know him or her.

I know its pressure to go on stage, to know that ten to thousands of people are watching your performance. You ask yourself, what if I mess up? And that fear builds up in your body, making it harder for you to move around and making it almost impossible for to you to even whisper. That's what the audience calls, Stage Fright.

But you don't worry about that, because once you have enough experience and take one step at time, from being an extra to playing the main that same fear will diminish or vanish. You'll learn how to breath, to clam down, and you realize you'll be ok.

Don't worry about what other people think. Take it slow and remember that, if you put emotion into your character and have the correct movements, you'll do more than give life to a part, you'll become whoever you are pretending to be.

Drama training also helps make people more mature and flexible because they have to learn to take directions. It's nothing personal I assure you. Its the director job to make the play or movie make sense, and sometimes that means having scenes done again and again until everyone in that scenes gets it right, with no mistakes.

Sometimes a director will need help from performers to get ideas for what will work better and that is a great way to learn how to express constructive opinions and ideas. Don't take it personally if the director disagrees with you because sometimes, someone else needs to be in charge-and that is the director's job.

Another useful feature of acting and drama is learning how to handle mistakes-and overcome them. Scenes can be re-shot; a miscue can be dealt with-but only if the actor has the maturity and focus to get it together and handle any problem rapidly and effectively. You learn to think on your feet when you act.

Flexibility is another great quality people who receive drama training learn. They have to work together with all kinds of other creative people, people who are handling costumes, makeup, props, lighting- all the ingredients of a fine play, excellent movie or a great TV series.

One of the most significant challenges many people face is preforming: being in front of people, talking effectively without a script, entering a group and understanding how to function. Drama is an excellent help for this because the key element for an actor is performance. The secret of being able to make your performance believable is that you have to believe in yourself, to do what your demands and try NOT to be who you really are.

You have to get IN CHRACTER. Sometimes, your character can even teach the people who are watching actions and paying attention to your words. They can learn values, or maybe hear some helpful advice that can help them make change their lives or fix past mistakes they regret.

Your character can even teach you. Maybe, if you're lucky, you might encounter a habit or two that you like so much you never want to stop doing it yourself. Or you will speak a line that sticks, like this, "To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, and to be late is unacceptable!" What a great lesson for time management!

To conclude, let me ask you to thnk about motivation and meaning. I ask you why does a builder build? Why does a painter paint? Why does a creator create? Why does a writer write? Why does an actor act? The answer they are inspired by someone or something; they want to take an ability or passion and turn it into a way of life.

I was inspired to take acting lesson because of one actor who was so convincing that I wanted to have experiences and the fun like he had. When I watched David Tennant, mostly famous for the role in the 10th Doctor era of Doctor Who, I thought, "I want to try that! I want to preform!"

In drama, inspiration is the key- you can be inspired yourself, and you can inspire others. So, I ask you.

What are you waiting for?"