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The Great Acting Blog: “The Actor’s Life Is Not Always Elegant”

22.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Often, being an actor is about dealing with stress and pressure - trying to find work in an overcrowded profession, trying to realise a project with minimal funds, continually facing up to an uncertain future, doing work where your mistakes are public. It can...

The Great Acting Blog: “Never Let Old Habits Put You Under Pressure”

08.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Change is a key factor in the actor's life. Change within himself and change within his situation. The change within his situation is to do with the transient, itinerant nature of the work. The situation is rarely stable. The work is project-to-project, the future is always...

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...

Surround Yourself With People You Respect | The Great Acting Blog

18.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

When we surround ourselves with people we respect, we do our best work because internally we raise our game. When we work with those we respect, our focus is greater and we challenge ourselves to go further, meeting new standards of excellence. When we are...

The Great Acting Blog: “Habits Help Us Cope With Pressure”

26.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Knowing that we can hold up under pressure enables us to seek out greater challenges and accomplish more. It empowers us to be more creative because our attention is off ourself, we're not worried about ourselves and this lack of self-consciousness enables creativity to flourish. Whether...

The Great Acting Blog: “Hold Your Nerve”

24.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

The dry. That dreaded moment when we just can't remember that line of dialogue. The alarm bells going off inside us seem to drown out everything, we do our best to stay cool, hoping that our blank mind will suddenly be scrawled with the correct...

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...

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