Actors on Acting – The Acting Corps Blog

We try to do our work in this town, we try to breathe creative life into whatever they throw our way, yet often it goes unappreciated, or worse, taken advantage of. What can we do, it’s part of the landscape – the playing field is never level and we are always behind the eight ball.

Our creative identity is our greatest source of strength and also our Achilles’ heel. It is also the first thing we put on the auction block, hoping a buyer will emerge who will understand and love us. That is rarely the case, as buyers are interested in product, our creative identity often just an inconvenience [...]

It is endlessly perplexing to me that some people maintain they know all they need to know about art and anything that came after what they were taught is just new-fangled rubbish. This idea, the idea that art stops is terrifying – if art can stop, that what chance do we have for immortality.

Whenever I do something silly, wasteful, and self destructive, most of the time it is my unique way of evading creative responsibility.

Acting is heartbreaking. Acting in Hollywood is even more painful, which is why very few actors actually really act in this town. Most actors hold back, risking little as they audition, etc., – all the while hoping to gain recognition and success. Maybe if actors started putting themselves on the line, giving to employers more [...]