Any advice on how to not think too much about acting? I find that when I try to work hard, I end up thinking too much and I end up getting self-conscious.

It's not that you shouldn't work hard, it's that you have to know what to work on. Make sure when you working on your acting, you are out of your head and in your body.

This is something that will take care of itself the more you act, but specifically I find it helpful if I do an activity to concentrate myself right before I'm about to come on.

Meisner is great for working off of your impulses, getting out of your head, and feeding off of the other actor.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

One piece of advice is to LISTEN. Listen to the other actors in the scene. If you are focused on what is going on in the scene, and what your characters objectives are, you won't have time to constantly direct yourself...at least not overly so.

Another thing is to trust yourself. Don't act. Just do it. You don't need to show the camera anything...if you are in the moment, the camera will pick up the smallest of body language or expression. You don't need to show anything...at least not until you are skilled enough to control the finest details of an expression, movement, or vocal tone...but that comes with practice.

Get in the moment. I don't know what else to say. Don't be afraid to let go of everything else...and just be in that scene. Let it all fade out (even the boom under your nose).

Trust yourself...and listen.

Not thinking is hard because if you're thinking about not thinking you've lost.

I think that the advice that was given above, t Trust yourself and to listen, was good advice/.

I also am not an advocate of people that fill their script with notes on their choices about the scene for a cold read. It's good to think about all this when preparing... but when you start actually acting it, you have to NOT be thinking about any of this, and for me, too many notes on my script is just distracting.

And don't forget to have fun!