Indeed. I can't do it either, so I'm not annoyed by actors doing it. Someone that keeps staring on the other hand, bugs me.I can't keep constant eye contact in everyday conversations, it's too awkward and intense.
Yeah I see this a lot in movies/TV shows it kinda bothers me. I don't really see many people in 'real life' do this. And I look at the bridge between the person's eyes rather than directly staring into someone's eyes.
As an actor, if I do this, it's because, well, people do this, and I'm trying to be realistic.
Any time I have to recall my lines, my eyes tend to go up and to the left...
I think I read somewhere that those movements have to do with the brain's way of processing stress. Something to do with this? http://www.4therapy.com/therapy/typ...ent-desensitization-reprocessing-therapy-2465
You don't realize you're doing it, but you are.
According to a NOVA episode I saw recently, humans have "a natural left-gaze bias, so you naturally look much more towards the left, i.e. the right-hand side, of somebody's face... Eye-tracking software demonstrates that, when presented with a human face, we nearly always look left first."I've put a small amount of effort into figuring this out, and it seems that most people who DONT move their eyes back and forth will look mostly at only one of their opponent's eyes (for instance, I nearly always look at their right eye).
Seriously though, how often do you try to "recall your lines"? Shouldn't you know them like the back of your hand. Without even thinking about them?