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The Great Acting Blog: “Are You Being Courageous?”

03.07.2014 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Being courageous is only temporary. An act which required courage from us six months ago, may be easy for us now - having done it, it holds no fear for us. We must every so often then, look at whether we are taking action which requires...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Are You Doing?”

27.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes, how we feel influences how well we think we're doing. But emotions are a poor indicator of our progress, they are liable to lead us up the garden path, and negative emotions can result in destructive decision-making. To measure our progress we need to...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Nature Of Ambition”

20.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Never become known for one thing, never make your work all about doing a trick, like the actor known for doing a Scottish accent so he gets called in whenever there's a Scottish character. Some would call that "branding" but I call it reductive. Your...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Meaning Of Pressure”

14.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

I would not go so far as to say that actors are adrenaline junkies, but certainly the kind of person who goes into acting is the kind of person who enjoys pressure. This pressure is contained in the life and in the work. On stage or in...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Driven Actor”

02.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

One of the objections to producing your own work is that many actors just want to be actors. They want to be left free of the additional worry and distraction that comes with directing and producing, they want to be able to concentrate on their performance...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why Do Actors Do It?”

30.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 33 Comments

From the outside, the life of an actor may not look too appetising, indeed, many former actors appear to have lacked the stomach for it - the continual struggle, the financial insecurity, the constant judgement, all seems to grind them down after a while. A...

The Great Acting Blog: “Take A Point Of View And Act On It”

29.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

Take a point of view on everything you do. If you don't like the way something is done, don't just accept it, make a note of it, work-out how it can be done better, and do it in the new way. Perhaps you don't like the way...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Scarcity Of True Artists”

25.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

People who try to treat acting as a business are wasting their time. Why? Because acting doesn't make any business sense whatsoever. No businessperson in their right mind would view an acting career as a choice investment opportunity. If we examined the life of an...

The Great Acting: “A Positive Struggle”

06.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Seneca Actors face rejection all the time, it's par for the course. This is well documented. It requires a combative spirit to be an actor, a spirit which, frankly, most people don't...

The Great Acting Blog: “Concentrate On Now”

04.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 15 Comments

The life of an actor can be full of stress and pressure. So much of it seems to be out of our control. Things don't move fast enough, we're not where we want to be in our career, we haven't accomplished the things within the timeframe...

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