Actors on Acting – The Acting Corps Blog

L.A. dwellers, try this. Travel to any place on this planet, spend at least a week there. Speak to the people, eat the food, breathe in and out. Then return to Hollywood. What is the first thing that hits you? The cars, yes that’s one thing. Their size, flash and cost crying out not for just attention, but adulation. What else? Ah, the people. Artificial lashes, noses, chests, and hair extensions begging for love not so much for the person underneath but for an idealized version of that person’s youth.

It is so much easier to tolerate the little discomforts of life than to ALWAYS address them. For example, my house is very warm right now and I should turn on the air conditioner. But to do so would mean the kind of commitment to taking care of business that I’m not sure I am [...]

Whenever I put myself at the center of the universe, two things occur. I start thinking that I matter more than other people and two, I get slapped silly by an uncaring universe that reminds me that in the grand scheme of things I’m at best a non-union extra waiting for the director to give [...]

It is amazing how everything resurrects. Until one day it doesn’t.

All religion which condemns every spiritual approach which is unlike itself is more about control than about God.