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The Great Acting Blog: “How Guilt Guides Us”

19.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 35 Comments

Acting is a never ending process, it isn't a job, it's a way of life, every moment of our lives is about growing as an artist, it's not about working to a clock. That's why sometimes when we engage in a project that takes us away...

The Great Acting Blog: “Look At Yourself In The Mirror”

18.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Actors are dreamers and as such we have a propensity for flights of fancy. We want to believe, make believe that is. This imaginative energy is the motor for our work, it's important to us. The downside to this however, is the tendency to not face...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Critics Misunderstand Acting”

17.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Criticism of acting is a major problem. In my experience, critics have absolutely no clue about the aesthetics of acting. They have no proper way of assessing an actor's performance. Consequently, they latch on to anything the actor did in preparation or anything obvious in...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Worthlessness Of Cynics”

16.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Get away from people who are not supporting you, get away from people who are not having a positive impact on what you're trying to do. This advice may seem harsh because they may have some good qualities, but if you're trying to accomplish something...

The Great Acting Blog: “Dedication Means Independence”

15.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 23 Comments

Whether your career will be brilliant or not is not under your control. Whether you will be rich and famous isn't either. But being dedicated to craft is. If you come to acting just to take, this dedication will seem incomprehensible to you. You will...

The Great Acting Blog: “See Problems As Invitations To Learn”

14.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 35 Comments

Whenever undertaking some new objective, we try to assess the liklihood that we will accomplish it, we try to pre-empt pitfalls, we try to give ourselves the best chance of accomplishing it. The trouble is, the difficulties can be interpreted as no-go signs, we may...

The Great Acting Blog: “Stick It To Them”

13.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Xan Brooks has written a piece in The Guardian praising non-professional actors, noteworthy because it demonstrates once again, the breath-taking ignorance of mainstream media. He does though make some reasonable points, when watching a star such as George Clooney he says he often finds it...

The Great Acting Blog: “Wannabe”

12.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

A wannabe is someone who moans about not having something but does absolutely nothing to get it. In acting terms, this generally amounts to not getting work but doing nothing to actually get work. This persons "career" is little more than a pose. They pretend...

The Great Acting Blog: “Which Road Should I Take?”

11.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

When one set of objectives has been accomplished (or not as the case may be), another set must be decided upon. This is always tricky because we are effectively signing-off the next few months or years of our life. The view however, is very different...

The Great Acting Blog: “Disappointment Is Self-Fulfilling”

10.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Actors learn not to expect anything in order to buffet themselves from the disappointments which are part of their daily life. They don’t hear about that audition they knocked out of the park, or the phone doesn’t ring, another rejection letter arrives in the post,...