REALITY SLOWS ME DOWN offers a wide variety of audition pieces for professional actors, as well as high school and college students and actors performing in community theaters. The contents have a broad range of choices in age, emotional tones, and personality characterizations that will suit any actor's need and inclination. These include attitudes of irony, desperation, bewilderment, suffering, anger, and exhilaration. Further, five dialogues are given for practice with friends and actors to be used for fun and practice. As well, the various speeches may be used as presentation pieces before a studio audience.