1. Monologue
“The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be”—Stanislavsky

2. Monologue
 monologue - a speech presented by a single character, usually in a movie or play, most often to express their thoughts aloud

3. Analyzing a scene Ask yourself three questions:
1. What is the character literally doing?
2. What is the character’s essential goal?
3. What is the action like to me? (It’s as if…)

4. What is the character literally doing?
Your task is to find one thing the character is doing during the entire scene.
Rocky is trying to inspire confidence in his son.

5. What is your character’s essential goal?
To steer his son away from his past mistakes.

6. What is the action like to me? (It’s as if…)
Helps give the actor a fuller understanding of the action he/she has chosen.
It’s as if I’m trying to help my friend Mark quit choosing bad influences in his life. To make him listen, I first had to show him all the positives in his life he had to live for.