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The Great Acting Blog: “Why Bad Work Succeeds”

21.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 7 Comments

People who only care about numbers, don't really care about what they do, it's just a mechanism for making money. This person is only concerned with box office stats, Youtube hits, creating empty mass media* to appeal to everyone (which is of course nobody), and...

The Great Acting Blog: “How To Direct Yourself”

20.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

One of the biggest objections I hear from actors about producing for themselves is that they need a director to tell them how their performance is going, that they have no antennae for monitoring their progression. You don't need a director. The job of the director...

The Great Acting Blog: “Make Yourself Indispensable”

19.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

How can an actor distinguish himself from the pack (and dying your hair blue, doesn't count)? How can we add value to a production? How can we make ourselves indispensable within a production? How can we make it so that a director would have to include us...

The Great Acting Blog: “Improve The Little One Percenters”

18.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

One time, I was on my way to an audition but I hadn't provided myself with a drink for the journey. It was a hot day, I was riding the tube. I started feeling dizzy and decidedly nauseous, and I began to sweat heavily, so...

The Great Acting Blog: “Relax Until The Lights Come Up”

16.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 5 Comments

You can go over and over a performance in your head, you can practice a scene at home trying to compensate for the fact that the other actor isn't there, a million times. But does that help you? Or does it get you over-wrought, too...

The Great Acting Blog: “Perfectionism Kills Creativity”

16.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

Striving for excellence is a good thing, striving for greatness is even better. We all have a notion of what the perfect work we want to do is, and measure our own efforts against it. But perfectionism, tames us, it blocks us from ever going for...

The Great Acting Blog: “Fear Of Truth”

15.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

There is a certain kind of actor who'll do absolutely anything apart from actually act the scene. They are full of chatter about it, they ask too many questions about it, you can't get through the scene in rehearsal without them breaking off to speak...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Mediocrity Teaches Us”

14.06.2013 , Uncategorized , 6 Comments

For all the moaning and frustration, truth is, many actors are happy being mediocre, coasting along, auditioning occasionally, working every now and then. You can get by being mediocre, you probably won't have a lot of fun doing it, but you can get by. Most employers...

The Great Acting Blog: “Achieve Something Extraordinary”

13.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

If you have no conception of yourself as an artist, if you have no vision of the results you want, if you're not working to please yourself, then you must be unhappy. You're whole life is about trying to satisfy other people in order to...

The Great Acting Blog: “We Can See You”

12.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

You work will only be what you are. What you are everyday is what you will be on stage or infront of camera. Actors don’t magically transform into somebody else when performing, and those who tell you that they do are taking liberties. We cannot hide...