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The Great Acting Blog: “Confront Weaknesses”

10.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 10 Comments

If you have weaknesses in your acting, don't ignore them, don't brush them under the carpet in order to maintain feelings of comfort. Have the courage and the energy to confront them. Develop the confidence to examine your work honestly. Acknowledging your weaknesses should not affront...

The Great Acting Blog: “Ensure Our Own Well Being By Supporting Others”

09.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

As actors, we often need support and encouragement, whether that comes from friends and family or books or even blogposts, this assistance plays an important role in assisting our thinking and keeping our emotional life in tact. There are others however, people within our orbit, including...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why Bother Reaching Beyond Mediocrity?”

08.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 12 Comments

Encouraging actors to strive to be great is often a difficult message to sell, because, essentially, you do not need to be a great actor in order to get work. In fact, we see plenty of mediocre actors out there with very decent careers, the...

The Great Acting Blog: “5 Harold Pinter Statements On The Creative Process”

07.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Harold Pinter has always been a great influence on me, and a great inspiration. Below are some statements of his which I return to occasionally to aid my thinking. Pinter is of course primarily talking about writing, but his thoughts can just as easily concern actors,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Continually Serve Your Life’s Goal”

06.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Remember that an acting career unfolds over a 30 or 40 year period. It's important not to get too wrapped up in the present moment, not to be overly influenced by it. We shouldn't exaggerate our problems, most are just bumps in the road rather...

The Great Acting Blog: “Meaning Creates Pressure”

05.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We become actors because we want to do something meaningful with our lives. Acting gives us a purpose, it creates passion within us, it gives us something to believe in. With this however, comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes pressure. Somewhere along the line, that pressure...

The Great Acting Blog: “Shun Superficiality – Make A Total Commitment To Your Work”

04.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes I wonder what a lot of actors are trying to achieve. They seem so indifferent, nothing seems to matter to them, and they are so unfocussed, so lacking in intensity, you wonder why they bother. One thing is for sure though: superficiality is boring,...

The Great Acting Blog: “I just want an acting job!”

03.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It's the cry we hear so many times, and sometimes we say it ourselves. But what sort of acting job? And, just as importantly, what sort of people do you want to work with? Getting into the wrong company, working with the wrong people, can...

The Great Acting Blog: “Honesty Creates Confidence”

02.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Remember that bold creative choices can easily turn into reckless creative choices and loss of control. When this happens we are liable to become unhinged when we're later faced with a less than enthusiastic audience. Why? Because our recklessness is a symptom of our disingenuousness...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actions Banish Boredom”

01.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I recently attended a seminar where the speaker delivered his speech in a reasonable fashion - he spoke clearly, with a decent amount of force and seemed to know what he was doing. The only trouble was, he was, well ...

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