I am occasionally asked by parents if acting classes are worth the time and expense they need. I believe that investing in acting classes is one of the best investments a parent can make: acting training pays off throughout a person’s entire life, regardless of where their career may lead.
Acting helps you gain control over your natural voice. Being taken by surprise, speaking during an event, or resolving a problem at work causes our voices to sound strange. A significant portion of acting class consists of how to utilize the strength of your natural voice, which, by the way, does not have to be loud. Meryl Streep doesn’t have a large, booming voice.
In the office, when discussing a vendor contract, delivering a presentation, or managing a team, I am not suggesting that businesspeople assume the persona of someone else (though I will discuss these scenarios later). The study of acting will assist you in harnessing your natural storytelling ability in ways that will make you more distinctive (and more entertaining).
Evenings and weekends, when we are youngsters or have them, are frequently dominated by extracurricular activities. I experimented with horseback riding, dance classes, Irish dancing, singing, the piano, and of course language and theater as a child.
Performing is difficult. Stage actors are aware of it, as are actors in movies, TV shows, and voice actors. For some of us, it just takes one dropped phrase or one unintentional character change to end the performance. The fear doesn’t so much sneak in as it bursts into our reality, destroying all possibility of accomplishment.