Fascinating chart showing how our skill levels and the difficulty of the challenge before us affects our emotional state. If you're suffering from anxiety about your work, then maybe you need to up your skill levels. Or if you've become bored, perhaps it's time to...
Read MoreSometimes, we need to make judgement calls. We use our experience, our point of view and the facts presented to us in order to decide. Sometimes we get it right, other times we get it wrong. All too often however, judgement calls are not judgement calls...
Read MoreSome of these are sweetly naive, and their bluntness renders them somewhat absurd, but nonetheless they offer a fascinating distillation of the actors themselves. The trade-marks are as much to do with the actor's own nature and what they bring to each role, as they are...
Read MoreOften, being an actor is about dealing with stress and pressure - trying to find work in an overcrowded profession, trying to realise a project with minimal funds, continually facing up to an uncertain future, doing work where your mistakes are public. It can...
Read MoreHave you ever thought about becoming that person you've been looking for? That director, that benefactor, that person who can open the door for you. Instead of trying to find that person, why not become that person and then you can give to yourself whatever it...
Read MoreToo often we prepare for failure. The purest example of this can be seen in the audition process - it takes so many auditions before actually landing a part. It involves many, many knock-backs, so that eventually we learn to dare not want anything too...
Read MoreSometimes, in your work you'll encounter frightened people. But they won't seem frightened, in fact, they'll present themselves as confident and knowing. They probably don't acknowledge their fear even to themselves. No, what they do is, instead of admitting their fear and dealing with it,...
Read MorePersistence is continuing to pursue your goal with passion and intensity long after the original impulse to do so has dissipated. Persistence is about refusing to back down and never letting up. It's about making something happen when nothing is, because we refuse to be...
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog Welles' insights here are mainly centred on creativity and being an artist, along with a little bit of philosophy, ie; ways to think about our work. Here are a few wise words by him...
Read MoreIf so, don't back down. Don't walk away. Remember: a setback is not evidence that you are useless, it's just a setback. Next time, aim even higher and go at it twice as hard. Subscribe To The Great Acting Blog...
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