The Great Acting: “A Positive Struggle”

The Great Acting: “A Positive Struggle”

“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 possess, settling as they do for a safe routine within the industrial complex. And that’s fine.

Personally, I am grateful for the struggles and the obstacles that have faced me over the years, and look forward to the ones to come. They force me to improve myself, to be honest with myself, they have made me stronger. Acting is a pressure environment. It’s pressure when you have to walk into a room and audition, it’s pressure when you step onto stage or in front of a camera, it’s pressure because you don’t know what next year or next month or even next week, will bring.

It’s too easy to complain and moan though. Perhaps it’s time to turn the struggle into a positive story, stressing the benefit that it brings to you, rather than stressing the negative story, that it denies letting you have what you want.

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