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The Great Acting Blog: “Security Breeds Selflessness?”

27.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

"Security breeds selflessness". I heard this recently via the sporting world and wondered how this might apply to the acting world, which is of course famous for it's insecurities. Security derives from trust, trusting and being trusted by those around you. Selflessness is generosity. When an...

The Great Acting Blog: “Keep The Fire Burning”

26.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

What do you want to be known for? What kind of actor do you want to be known as? You can’t chase everything. Film, television, theatre, radio, (web?) whichever one you focus your time, energy and resources on, means less for the others. If you...

The Great Acting Blog: “Contacting Powerful People”

24.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"When you are going to any of those in great power, place before yourself that you will not find the man at home, that you will be excluded, that the door will not be opened to you, that the man will not care about you. And...

The Great Acting Blog: “Exploration And Discovery”

23.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Sometimes it seems, a role is too well cast. The actor fits the character too perfectly. After doing a thorough analysis, the director has a very specific and precisely articulated idea about what he wants the character to be. So he searches for an actor...

The Great Acting Blog: “Great Work Is Done By Those Who Take Responsibility”

22.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 35 Comments

I entered the theatre with some trepidation. I was worried it was going to be another one of those American movies about twenty-somethings moaning about non-problems, or a second rate episode of Friends shot in black and white. I hadn’t liked The Squid And The...

The Great Acting Blog: “Small Steps To Accomplish Big Goals”

21.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Yesterday's post was about setting goals high enough so that accomplishing them creates stress, and coming through this stress then helps us to grow. However, we don't need to dive into the stress from the word go. Oftentimes we need to gently ease ourselves into...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Cycle Of Ever Greater Accomplishment”

20.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 32 Comments

The higher you set the bar, the more difficult you set the objective, the more you are activated and so the more you will accomplish. It's up to you to decide how high the bar will be set and how you prepare yourself for overcoming it....

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...

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