Lights, Camera. Action

Most of us want to become popular because it is nice to be known as somebody. That is why many want to become an actor or an actress. This is the shortest way to fame because all you have to do is to give your best in acting.
Acting is derived from the Latin word agere meaning to do; this is precisely what acting is. In acting an actor suppresses or augments aspects of his personality in order to reveal the actions and motivations of the fictional character he portrays within a particular moment. Thus, the actor is assuming the role of another, usually for the benefit of an audience. Aside from benefiting an audience, acting can also bring a sense of art satisfaction on the actor because it helps in expressing the aesthetic sense of a person.
For me the very first thing you must do to be effective in acting is to develop an interest on and love on it. Without interest and love, acting will come out strained and artificial. With love and interest, acting will become spontaneous and satisfying both to the actor and the audience. Once you learned to love and to develop interest in acting, you cannot do it without passion. You will be passionate enough in justifying your character and many will notice you for your exceptional acting prowess.
The next thing that you have to do is to read the script. In reading the script, you should try to understand the story behind it. Then re-read the script, and this time try to focus on the role assigned to you. It is not important to memorize your lines word for word. What is essential is that you understand the flow of events. You can even inject adlibs as long as the situation allows you.
Then go on internalization, the process of putting up all your emotions and imaginations to the scene. You should consider that acting is a work of imagination. If you are rich in imagination, wonderful things will come out. Thus it is an edge if an actor has a well-developed imagination. Moreover, an actor should also have the ability to analyze and understand dramatic text so that he will be able to justify his character or role. To do this, true feelings and true objectives must be involved.
During the acting proper, an actor must retain the same level of concentration and emotional intensity from one shot to the next. He must be able to recall, in minute detail, the exact sequence of the character’s emotional response, often at a moment’s notice. This requires enormous concentration and mental coordination.
In acting, actors are generally expected to possess a number of skills, including good vocal projection and clarity of speech. These would give an actor the advantage to be better than his contemporaries. You have to consider that a well-delivered speech in acting would lead to an easy comprehension and clarity of the message the story tries to impart. Other things that an actor should possess are physical expressiveness, a good sense of perspective, and emotional availability.
If an actor has the capacity to express physically what the scene asks for, he would become very effective. Good sense of perspective would also help the actor to be professional even if he will commit mistakes. An actor should be very innovative and should have the guts to make wrong things right. Moreover, he should also have the emotional availability, which would allow him to show a specified emotion fitting to a certain scene. Emotional availability is very important because it enables the actor to do his role with justice. Acting is having the emotion that best fits the scene. A good all-round actor is able to convey a wide range of emotions, with the development of movement and vocal skills.
On the other hand, a very important thing that an actor should learn is the principle of leaving and living. He should have a total abandonment of his own personality and should live with the new personality his character requires. Thus to become a good actor, he should have no awareness of self. He must not allow himself to go back to his past because it leads him to be aware of himself.
Well-rounded actors are often also skilled in singing, dancing, emotional expressiveness, imitating dialect and accent, observing and emulating, and performing classical texts such as William Shakespeare’s. Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges, which have a wide range of different artistic philosophies and processes to develop these skills.
Thus it is essential for an actor to be equipped with all the necessary principles so that he will be confident enough when the director shouts, “Lights, Camera, Action."