How the Actor Commands Attention
It’s a common saying in theatre that the moving figure dominates, but that’s not the whole story. Actors are taught from the beginning of their careers that the audience pays more attention to the person moving than to the person talking. This is true to a point, but conventional wisdom is wrong again when taken […]
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5 Tips for Overcoming Exhaustion and Getting Back to Work
“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”
–Mia Hamm
If there is one thing the audience never knows about actors, it’s how tiring our job truly is. People have literally laughed at me when I told them how tired I was after […]
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Should You Have Kept Your Mouth Shut?
”If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.”
–Earl Wilson
As an actor I have a hard and fast rule that I live by when it comes to other cast members: If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. I never give false compliments, I see no need for them, […]
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You Can’t Be an Actor and a Gentleman.
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
–Sally Field
You may recall a while back when I wrote about my “Crisis of Confidence” as I’ve referred to it in Great Acting: Catching Lightning in a Bottle and The Actor Who Succeeded by Failure. It been a strange mode […]
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Growing & Efforting Part 4: How to Ally with Your Fears
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
There are only two prevailing reasons for why anyone does anything: to avoid pain or gain pleasure. […]
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Growing & Efforting Part 3: Propensity for Fear
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
–Fulton Oursler
Fear is a funny thing when you come right down to it. It can save our lives or it can ruin them forever. Fear can cause a wondrous change, or keep us in ugly stagnation. […]
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