Personal Narrative: My Love Of Acting

I have been fascinated with acting since I was a little girl, and when I started taking lessons a few years ago, I had no idea what I got myself into. In a total of one year, I acquired not just physical skills, but I also learned what it took to truly fulfill what it means to be a great actress. From reading and learning about auditioning to actually going out and demonstrating my skills, I learned how to fall in love with a hobby and, therefore, turn it into a passion.

It all started with a book. My acting coach assigned us a reading assignment, which I only completed for the love of acting. The book, titled Audition, is by Michael Shurtleff and was my heart and soul only a week after getting it. Through every page, I was taught how to audition in a professional setting. This obviously helped a lot when it came to the auditions I went to later on; however, Shurtleff mostly made known to …show more content…
I learned this through the power of emotion. My instructor always taught us that empathy was the way to becoming someone else. Acting is like filing through books in a library, picking and choosing the most interesting ones. Similarly, in acting, one must file through every emotion he or she has ever felt and pick it apart until they meet the feelings of the character being portrayed. We had to pull from our own emotions in order to fully act out another’s. This requires a lot of self evaluation. Pulling from my own experiences was a challenge, especially when the situation I had to relate to was not a happy one. Despite this challenge, I somehow always managed to pull through. By expressing emotion and delving into unfamiliar concepts in acting, I discovered much about myself. Now, I think of acting in a whole new way. It isn’t just a pastime or something I might be interested in. Acting has become a part of me because I have learned so much through