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The Great Acting Blog: “When Should You Quit?”

11.02.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We understand what happens to us in relation to what we want. The actor who commits the rest of his life to his work, the one who says "I'm never going to stop", reacts differently to the inevitable stresses and strains to the one who...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Quit In Order To Conform”

12.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Perhaps you're not making any money, or you're not achieving all that you want to, or you don't yet fully understand what it is you're trying to do. It doesn't matter, keep going, don't quit. The artist's life is a precarious one. It's natural for...

The Great Acting Blog: “Keep Fighting”

25.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

In David Mamet's 2009 film, Redbelt, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a jiu-jitsu instructor who runs a self-defence school and lives by a samurai's code. He refuses to participate in prize fights, until he is forced into a big, gaudy tournament for television, in order to pay...

The Great Acting Blog: “When The Real Test Begins”

03.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Like the protagonist of the play, we are on a quest, and at certain points in that quest certain ugly things, which we were not expecting, will rear themselves, and it will dawn on us that the quest is going to be a lot more...

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The Great Acting Blog: “When Should You Quit?”

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Quit In Order To Conform”

The Great Acting Blog: “Keep Fighting”

The Great Acting Blog: “When The Real Test Begins”