Childhood should be fun! And the entire process of becoming a child actor should be too. That’s a cardinal rule we believe in. Now that Rule No. 1 has been firmly established, let’s have a look at the wheres, the hows, and wherefore-art-thous of helping your child accomplish their dreams of becoming a kid actor. …
“Nobody can help you get something they don’t have. Nobody can help you get someplace they have never been to. We are all products of our environment and when we choose environments that are less, we become less. Losers can’t teach you how to win.”
And additionally, how can I nail auditions? Become a paid actor? And get an agent? ??? Before I tell you the “secret answers” to these questions, I first want to share something that I recently saw shared on Facebook that came from an “acting coach” in Jacksonville. In the post, they said the most important …
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Any acting studio who makes you career promises, teaches a homegrown technique without an illustrious career, and an exceptional body of work to back it up or uses the word “Star” or “Hollywood” in their name is most likely blowing smoke up your behind. But in all fairness, they probably don’t believe that what they’re …
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Belief in oneself in spite of one’s ignorance, lack of ability, and inexperience is a recipe for failure. Belief is not what you lean on when you are unprepared, ignorant, and untested. You don’t just throw yourself headlong into the arena because you want the prize and expect belief to pick up the slack. Belief …
The performing arts are a collaborative art form and there are only 2 ways it works; when one person is perfect, and that person wrangles up a bunch of ordinary people to be their puppets whose only job is to follow orders to the letter so they don’t screw up that perfect person’s perfect vision.
Art is not about convincing others to agree with a moral or philosophical agenda. Art is not about telling people what is right or what is wrong, artists do not judge, artists are not politicians nor preachers. Art, as my mentor Rob Mellow always says, ” reveals.” Specifically, something about the human experience through your own.
Acting is making things as real for yourself as you can. Living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. You have to find things inside you that you can use to believe your given circumstances as best you can. Find ways to really hate, really love…which means sometimes you really have to forgive, really have to break your …
How long something lasts usually depends on the foundation it was built upon. If you build a house out of sticks on a bed of sand, it will undoubtedly be faster and cheaper, but don’t expect it to make it through a hard rain or a gust of wind.
