Acting is not a life where it's all mapped out. It doesn't have a clear command and reward structure like most regular jobs. There is no certainty year-to-year or even month-to-month. That's why we must make a habit of facing up to the unknown....
Read MoreWe do what we set ourselves to do. If we set ourselves to become mediocre actors then that's what we'll we do. If we set ourselves to valiantly try to build an acting career before quitting after a few years, then that's what we'll do. If...
Read MoreYour work is not going to be for everybody. Your audition, your performance, your script, your film, your play, your blogpost, whatever it is, some people are going to reject it. They just don't respond to your aesthetic, they just don't connect with it, maybe...
Read MoreYou can walk away and do something else, or you can stay fixed on your goals. There is nothing stopping you from doing either. It is a choice. It is a choice, and as such, the responsibility rests with you. This means it's up to you...
Read MoreChange is a key factor in the actor's life. Change within himself and change within his situation. The change within his situation is to do with the transient, itinerant nature of the work. The situation is rarely stable. The work is project-to-project, the future is always...
Read MoreIf you only want to turn-out humdrum work, you'll have to scream louder to make yourself heard amid the cacophony, but every so often you will get what you want. It's easy in one sense because you're dishing out something you don't care about, the stakes...
Read MoreWoody Allen knows a thing or two about building a body of work. Over 50 years he's made 48 feature films, playing leading roles in most of them too, and he's made them on his own terms, with complete artistic freedom. He shows what can...
Read MoreI backed Irish filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain's first feature film on Indiegogo. They're raising funds up until the 7th August. It looks like a really strong project, described as "ghost love in a haunted landscape: a challenging and darkly poetic experimental feature film". Check out...
Read MoreIn our work it's important to create afresh each time we do a scene, whether in rehearsal or in performance. The tendency is often to fall back onto a previous way of doing it, a way that has already worked, re-creating rather than creating. We...
Read MoreIf you're going to be picking a goal, it might as well be something you love. Don't think you're making life easier, don't think you'll reduce the stress by picking something you're only luke warm about. Remember that it's going to require long hours of...
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