| Introduction, or What’s This All About? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 | |
| Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 | |
| Pointer One: It Takes a Lifetime to Learn How to Act. . . . . . . . . 10 | |
| Pointer One and a Half: Putting on the Proper Face. . . . . . . . . . 11 | |
| Pointer Two: Belief and Honesty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 | |
| Pointer Two and a Half: Actions Speak Louder than Words . . . . . . . 13 | |
| Pointer Two and Three-Quarters: What If?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 | |
| Pointer Three: Given Circumstances, or the Five W’s . . . . . . . . . 16 | |
| Pointer Four: Relax and Smell the Roses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 | |
| Pointer Five: The Big Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 | |
| Pointer Five and a Half: Exercise Your Imagination. . . . . . . . . . 23 | |
| Pointer Six: Substitution, or Hold it Between Your Knees. . . . . . . 25 | |
| Pointer Seven: Your Past Doesn’t Have to Haunt You... It Can Help You! | |
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| Pointer Seven and a Half: My Past Experience in Detail. . . . . . . . 29 | |
| Pointer Seven and Three Quarters: Past Experience Plus Substitution | |
| Equals Success. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 | |
| Pointer Eight: Props Are Your Best Buddy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 | |
| Pointer Nine: Cussing Subtext . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 | |
| Pointer Nine and a Half: Body Language Can Be Subtext Too . . . . . . 43 | |
| Pointer Nine and Three-Quarters: Never Mosey on a Stage . . . . . . . 44 | |
| Pointer Nine Epilogue: Stand Still Once You Get There . . . . . . . . 44 | |
| Pointer Ten: We Are Not Doing Night of the Living Dead! . . . . . . . 46 | |
| Pointer Eleven: Stop Looking for Cigarette Butts. . . . . . . . . . . 47 | |
| Pointer Twelve: When You Are Smiling Properly on Stage, Your Face is | |
| Gonna Hurt When the Show is Over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 | |
| Pointer Thirteen: Theatre Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry. . . 50 | |
| Pointer Fourteen: Inner Monologue Does Not Mean You Are Crazy!. . . . 51 | |
| Pointer Fifteen: The Lump in the Throat Syndrome! . . . . . . . . . . 53 | |
| Pointer Sixteen: What Was the Previous Domino That Fell?. . . . . . . 54 | |
| Pointer Sixteen and a Half: The Magic Moment Before is a Must to Add to | |
| the Bag of Tricks of the Trade! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 | |
| Pointer Seventeen: Happy Love!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 | |
| Pointer Eighteen: Seeing Is Not Only Believing...You Can Use It!. . . 57 | |
| Pointer Nineteen: Drama Means: A Life Full of Speed Bumps . . . . . . 60 | |
| Pointer Twenty: Climbing the Steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 | |
| Pointer Twenty-One: Polar Attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 | |
| Pointer Twenty-Two: The Spine of the Character. . . . . . . . . . . . 64 | |
| Pointer Twenty-Three: Turn Up Your Hearing Aid. . . . . . . . . . . . 65 | |
| Pointer Twenty-Four: Three Hints About Speaking Dialogue. . . . . . . 67 | |
| Pointer Twenty-Five: The Martha Raye Rule on Pausing for Laughs . . . 69 | |
| Pointer Twenty-Five and a Half: Comedy is Set Up in Threes and Fours | |
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| Pointer Twenty-Six: Who is Winning the Mini Battle? . . . . . . . . . 73 | |
| Pointer Twenty-Seven: Stanislavski Called Speed Bumps...Units!. . . . 74 | |
| Pointer Twenty-Eight: Up the Stakes to a Filet Mignon . . . . . . . . 80 | |
| The Final Epilogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 | |
| Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 | |