What Do You Do If Your Agent Dumps You?
What you must not do, under any circumstances, is allow yourself to think for a second that this means the end of your acting career.
Browsing: Acting Advice
Reminder: It’s Not All About the Destination
It’s not only about the end destination. It’s about having something to reach for.
Jenna Fischer’s Acting Advice and the Number One Thing Actors Should Do for Their Career
“Part of the test of becoming a working actor is being able to be resilient and work through those road blocks in whatever way you can.” – Jenna Fischer
How to Take Control of Your Work and Not Waste Time Explaining or Defending Your Choices
Face it, acting is about pretending. And the goal is to pretend in a way that looks and sounds believable.
Being an Actor: What is Your WHY?
As you move further into your career as an actor, you need to realize that it is not going to be easy.
Interview: Michael Kelly on Memorizing Dialogue, Acting Advice and His New Film, ‘All Square’
“I always say to actors, if you don’t get something, there’s a reason. It’s okay. It sucks in the moment. But it’ll all work out man.” – Michael Kelly
Daveed Diggs on the Advice He Would Give His Younger Self
“I think I’m getting to be selective about the things I’m working on because I’m pretty confident in who I am.” – Daveed Diggs
21 Ways to Find Acting Work Without an Agent
Never wait for opportunities to come to you or for that one magic person to come and make your career.
David Harbour: “You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path”
“All I say is that if you HAVE to act, then you HAVE to make it happen.” – David Harbour
Actors… Stop Attacking Each Other!
This industry is hard enough as it is without actors criticizing each other and questioning each others choices and motivations.
“Create your own work!” Okay… about what?
Remember to play to your strengths as an actor. You don’t need a fancy camera, or the latest editing program – you just have to work really really hard…
How to Bring a Scene to Life and Captivate Your Audience
Your job as an actor is to move your audience and allow them to enter into the fantasy world that you have created.
The Power of ‘NO’ aka “To thine own self be true…”
This isn’t a license to go crazy. Don’t become a Diva and say No to everything just to test your power. Be specific and only use it when it truly means something.
10 Ways to Stop Stage Fright
We’d rehearsed and rehearsed, I had worked so hard to prepare my character, and of…
5 Reasons Why You Should Thank Your Villains
The more active you are in your choices, the more villains will be standing in your way.
The One Thing You Need To Know About Auditions
What did you bring to the audition that sets you apart? What did you do differently to everyone else who walked into the audition room that day?
Dear Starving Actor…
“While others get paid in their chosen professions, you work to be able to afford yours.”
Find Your Inner Superhero: Five Questions to Ask That Can Make Your Acting and Writing Powerful
You can use the strong story mechanics that superhero tales frequently employ by asking yourself these five questions for your acting or writing
How to Get Away with Murder’s Aja Naomi King Has Some Advice for Actors
“Create the part for yourself, so you can exercise that muscle, so you can be ready to go in that room” – Aja Naomi King
Actors, Be Your Own Agent
No one wants you to succeed more than you do and no one is thinking about the possibility of you playing every role on the breakdowns, except for you.