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The Great Acting Blog: “Excuses, Excuses”

22.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 5 Comments

When faced with a challenge (ie - a task which creates a fear of failure), it's easy to shy away, telling yourself that you don't possess the necessary qualities to do the thing - I'm not this, I'm not that. Alternatively, the challenge can be...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why Bad Work Succeeds”

21.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 7 Comments

People who only care about numbers, don't really care about what they do, it's just a mechanism for making money. This person is only concerned with box office stats, Youtube hits, creating empty mass media* to appeal to everyone (which is of course nobody), and...

The Great Acting Blog: “How To Direct Yourself”

20.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

One of the biggest objections I hear from actors about producing for themselves is that they need a director to tell them how their performance is going, that they have no antennae for monitoring their progression. You don't need a director. The job of the director...

The Great Acting Blog: “Make Yourself Indispensable”

19.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

How can an actor distinguish himself from the pack (and dying your hair blue, doesn't count)? How can we add value to a production? How can we make ourselves indispensable within a production? How can we make it so that a director would have to include us...