Actors on Acting – The Acting Corps Blog

When a director gives us a note we feel like our inner child has just been stabbed right in the core of her creative being. We are then expected to extract the knife, heal our wound, and continue playfully, and all this before the next take.

Sometimes we actors feel like ants, nothing but ants looking for new representation. And if we can convince these agents and managers that we have the ability to transform into giants, if only they believe in us, then we will indeed become giants. But come to think of it, our plight is not unlike that [...]

One day you will go to an audition and read for a small part in a small project. And you will meet a veteran actor who has been in show business all his life. He will tell you all kinds of stories about movie moguls and real movie stars, about a bygone era, about mistakes [...]

To work in Hollywood is to spin plates. And as they spin and eventually break, we throw up more plates and spin those as well. Eventually all of us run out of plates, and all we have are broken plates on the floor. It never occurs to anyone in this town that maybe plates weren’t [...]

Tabloid journalism has been around way before Guttenberg gave us the printing press. To be sure, one can imagine the shaman of the tribe receiving a great deal of status and respect, but one can also imagine the gossip, as purveyor of early popular entertainment, receiving a great deal more adulation.