Finding objective

How does an actor find his or her objective?

Every single line in a scene can have many or few objectives. As actors we must sift through all the words and find the "hidden" objective in plain view on the page. Your objective must be fulfilled before you move onto the next one OR another character can completely change the course and give a new objective. 

Your objective must always be simple, If you over complicate it, it will become overacted, melodramatic and terrible. It also makes it very difficult for you to play it. So use simple objectives like to inform or to excite or to annoy or to ignore something that has an affect on the fellow actor or object you are playing to. 

Finding an objective can however prove to be tricky so my way of finding the "right" objective for the scene is to play around with different ones until I arrive at one that fits the scene. Ever so often though you should change it up because there's only a finite amount of ways to play a said objective and acting is all about living in the moment and doing things fresh!