So here's our midterm oral exam piece:
Listen! I can hear what you’re thinking. You simply think out so loud, you know. What? It’s hard to be a movie star or a stage player? Oh no, you’re wrong. You are absolutely wrong. It is easy to act!
It’s the simplest way to fame and fortune. All you have to do is say a few words, laugh a little, make love, or even die a little. I remember when the committee of the Academy Awards attempted to give me an Oscar for an excellent performance. Oh, I had to refuse it. How can I accept an award for something I can do quite naturally?
No kidding. You can be a Shylock, a Cyrano de Bergerac, an Angelina Jolie, or even Hermione at a drop of a hat.
We could start with some passionate lines. It never fails to catch the attention of the audience. Perhaps this could help...
“Put some sugar into your sweet mellow lips and leave your mouth breathlessly open... How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee from the depth, and breath, and height my soul can reach!”
I bet you were very romantic. Easy, right? Let us try some monologue lines now.
“Where were you? You weren't at dinner. You said we'd talk at dinner. You weren't there. It's supposed to mean you shouldn't send tangible items if you don't want to get caught, that's what it's supposed to mean. You gave her flowers. She's telling people you gave her flowers. I mean, enough that you're having an affair with the stupidest person on this campus, but you're sending her things you're not even sending me. I'm not even asking for exclusivity here, I'm asking for equality. She gets flowers, the least you could have done was send me some flowers. Not that anything would have been excused, but do you know how low it makes me feel? Are you aware? You sent the tramp flowers, Ex. You went into town and gave money to a florist so your little affair could smell flowers. How thoughtful! You should have called me.
Yes, I know, I asked for it, I do deserve some of it because I tolerated it, I allowed it, I ignored it, but there are limits. You've pulled off some incredible stunts during this relationship, gotten away with some extraordinary garbage, and I want to be the first to congratulate you, you do the scumbag thing extremely well. But I will no longer be a segment of your vicious circle. I don't fit. I can't even look at myself in the mirror, because when I do, all I can see are flowers, somebody else's flowers. You've gotten a lot of mileage on just a few drops of romance very early on. I'm a sucker. But the tank is empty. Enough of this. I can't do it. Enough and good bye.”
For our final salvo, let us take Shakespeare.
“He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
So, there. Acting is never hard. It’s easy as 1-2-3. So, go out and act. Because as I’ve mentioned: It is easy, isn’t it?
-- i hope i'd memorize it by tomorrow morning. :| I AM NUMBER 4.