The Great Acting Blog: “The Scarcity Of True Artists”
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 actor rationally, then none of us would enter into it in the first place. We do so because we are dreamers, we don’t live in the real world. We make choices out of love, raw ambition and the determination to make it work no matter what.
That’s why it’s so important to go for what you love, for what you are passionate about. Striving for money only, just isn’t enough. Eventually your mind will be ground down by the constant resistance actors face and will settle itself on an easier way of making cash, then it’ll be time to say your goodbyes. Go for what you’re passionate about, because it’s that passion which will inspire you to overcome the endless obstacles, to get up from the canvas one more time and to keep your generosity. Go for what you love and try to control as many of the steps as you can (yes, that means working long hours).
Life’s too short to compromise and settle for the half-measure, and it’s certainly too short to do as you’re told. If you’re going to do that, you might as well get a routine job with a contract and the consolation of regular pay.
Our culture has a surplus of people on the make, what we are short of however, is true artists.
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