Acting tips: Practice makes permanent!

You often hear the phrase "Practice makes perfect." Buuut, that's not entirely true.  Practice only makes perfect if you practice "it" perfectly.  If you practice it wrong, you'll learn it wrong.  If you practice your acting like you're reading out of a book, you will act on stage as though you are reading it out of a book.

Many say to memorize your lines as soon as possible to get out of the book.  Good advice.  But equally important is when you are reading from the book to learn those lines, read with conviction and emotion and modulation as though you were doing radio theater and the only thing people experience is your delivery.  This way the voice becomes another actor within you.

Remember: Practice makes Permanent.  Learn it the way you want to do it, because you will anyway.