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Be Comfortable Not Knowing | The Great Acting Blog

01.01.2020 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

"It is not a sign of ignorance not to know the answers. But there is great merit in facing the questions" - David Mamet, True and False Much of our lives as artists is not within our control. Often, we must wait for our imagination to...

The Great Acting Blog: “See It Through”

29.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Doing 80% of the work is not the same as doing 100% of the work. 80% may be a good effort but it will get you nowhere. 80% of your lines leant, 80% of that script written, 80% of that film made, may as well be zero...

The Great Acting Blog: “Busyness Can Be Laziness”

11.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Laziness is to do with the importance of the task you are undertaking, not the volume of your activity. If you're hyper-busy doing work that doesn't matter, then that is a form of laziness. Being hard-working isn't necessarily about doing a million hours a week. It's about...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Think. Do.”

13.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Don't think. Do. Our minds become flooded with images and voices and excuses and complications, all of which serve as a barrier to accomplishing all that we need to. This mental clutter can be dismissed in a moment though, if we so choose. Know that this clutter...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Trouble With A Little Bit Of Knowledge”

10.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Preconceptions are too often used as an excuse for inaction; "oh, I won't bother trying to get that project off the ground because the little I know about it suggests to me that it probably won't work." Truth is, we don't really know until we...

The Great Acting Blog: As we close out the year…

30.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

....some of us may reflect and wonder why we didn't accomplish more. Each of us will have our own answer to this question. But next year I'm going to do more. ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Parkinson’s Law – Getting More Important Stuff Done”

10.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 5,695 Comments

I am always trying to find new ways of being more effective,* and this is especially true at the moment because over the next year I will be undertaking several sizeable projects, each of which will take me way out of my comfort zone. I...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Effective Actor”

01.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The effective actor is focussed on getting the results he wants. The effective actor has stated his goals clearly and simply to himself and has identified the essential tasks which, if done correctly, will help him to accomplish those goals. The effective actor doesn't mistake efficiency...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Lesson From Our Creative Work”

30.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Whenever we have a problem focusing on a task, we might, in order to get ourselves back on track, want to reflect on our creative work where there is usually no such problem. When we work on a script, we pick an objective which is exciting...

The Great Acting Blog: “Compare Today With Yesterday”

19.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

I heard a great idea recently about accomplishing big, difficult objectives: Don’t worry about whether you’re getting closer to the objective each day, rather compare where you are at today with yesterday. The point is that making this comparison enables us to see our progress, even if...

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