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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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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Growing & Efforting Part 2: Betterment of the Artist
“Self-help junkies, however, frequently mislabel their lack of real progress as intangible, internal, or psychological growth. If that inner growth is really present, one’s external reality will surely reflect it.”
–Steve Pavlina
Last update, I talked very briefly about Steve Pavlina’s “Self-Help Junkies” and how it applies to our creative endeavors. I wanted to leave […]
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Actors
While sitting at my desk, staring off into space and contemplating what I’d like to write about today, my eyes settled on a copy of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. To be perfectly honest, I’ve never thought Covey’s book was anything all that special or innovative, but its ideas are […]
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Great Acting: Catching Lightning in a Bottle
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.”
–Mark Twain
On stage today I suddenly knew just what I had done wrong all of those times before. It suddenly struck me what the difference was between my successful performances and my not so successful performances. Like a bolt from […]
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