My Man Meisner

Meisner has been very influential to my LIFE! Not just my acting but my life he has influenced. He keeps it real. What I mean by that is that he doesn't just explain how an actor should be in the studio but he also speaks about the actor outside of the studio. The forever growing and forever learning human beings that we should strive to be will help us in the studio. Growing up in a world so heavily influenced by society makes it hard to be different from what everyone else in society has learned to understand and except. Does that make since? Example. You stop by starbucks before going to class. You really need some coffee to stay awake because the night before you were up all night writing your ten page paper on why do you think Jason is so tall. You have 3 classes today and you are running off of an hour and thirty minutes of sleep. You left your ipod in the dorm room and you cant go back to get it because you already gave the subway your last $2.25. The 6 train finally arrives after running 10 minutes late and the people storm off of it and on it at the same danm time. A stranger bumps into you and knocks your coffee out of your hand. You go to catch it with both hands forgetting that you're holding Jason's ten page paper in one hand, the lid pops off, the hot coffee splashes into your face and onto the paper. The stranger looks and shouts while walking away "Sorry about that." You then reply, "Its ok". Now what society has taught me at least was to be nice and its not right to yell at strangers or be mean. Society tells us that accidents happen and its not right to blame other people for accidents. You are supposed to be nice. :/ Do I feel a Meisner moment coming up? I think so... FUCK BEING NICE!! I don't know about you but in the studio if that happened, it would get ugly. Now sometimes in the real world you shouldn't take things to the extreme because of the permanent consequences they may lead to. Meisner helps me explore those impulses that I sit on in the studio and in real life. I thank him for showing me and explaining to me that sometimes its ok not to sit on impulses, in fact you should rarely sit on impulses.