If we can learn anything from our canine friends is that there is a reason why they stick their heads out of car windows – they would rather be riding motorcycles. Me too, I find. I also would rather be acting rather than watching from the safety of my couch. If there is anything the [...]
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Serving Your Talent
Most acting classes in Los Angeles encourage you to do the same thing, i.e., they encourage you to drop into a child-like state where you are vulnerable, spontaneous, and infinitely teachable. What these acting schools don’t always do is treat you with unconditional acceptance, offering you gentle guidance once you’re there. The choice any acting [...]
10 Item Actor’s Bill Of Rights
1 . I have the right to audition for any part, large or small, for a big budget feature or a low budget indie.
2. I have the right to be compensated for my acting, including student films.
3. I have the right to seek representation, as well as the right to terminate representation when appropriate.
4. Whenever someone tells me that extra work leads to acting work, I reserve the right to disagree.
5. When I find myself in any abusive circumstance, either in a classroom, in an office or on a set, I have the right to excuse myself.
MONEY MATTERS
Don’t worry about money, ever; just guarantee its manifestation in your life by doing what frightens you.
TO STEAL
To take another’s ideas or words and make them your own is to say “I am afraid that I won’t make the grade, and certainly so and so must know better, and who will find out anyway?” The perpetrator suffers the most in all this. Through his trickery he has just told himself loud and [...]
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