Talent is like luck and it favors the prepared. So Mamet tells us to learn the skills of voice, dance and how to read the script like an actor. This to me means schooling which is not what Mamet would suggest. I don't get it. How do you become a competent actor if you can't go to school and there fore don't have the skills to get work and there for can't learn from the stage as Mamet says it should be done. I do however agree that talent like luck will come from determination and dedication.
I enjoyed Habit. The chapter felt like all of the basics. Things like leaving your problems on the street and being totally there in rehearsal and ready to get work done. Be an overachiever rising above the ranks rather than with them. Constantly improve your skills. However my favorite parts of this chapter were about how actors try with everything they have. They constantly hand themselves up for inspection by others. It is you on stage and you can hide nothing. It's a very reveling choice to put yourself on a stage.
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