Actually, status (as described on that page) is something you <i>play</i>, moment to moment.  You are giving off a signal of "don't come near me, I bite" or "don't bite me, I'm not worth the trouble" or something somewhere in between, every second that you interact in person with someone else. Unlike stupid tricks like "mirroring", giving off status signals is not something you can stop doing.  What you can do, though, is become more aware of it, better able to modulate it. Socially adept people are <i>very</i> good at varying their status moment by moment.  For many of them, it's probably not even conscious.<p>The main reason an actor needs to learn about status is to be able to make scenes <i>realistic</i>.  When the characters don't have a status relationship, a scene looks wooden and fake.<p>BTW, playing high status is not necessarily better.  People who relentlessly play high status in every situation are commonly called "assholes".  (Usually behind their backs.)