fear and willingness to fail
“Your level of success will be in proportion to the level of failure you have learned from. Be willing to fail.” – Randy Gage Failure. It’s not a word we like to hear. The mere mention of failure,...
Category: actor stuff
on competing with everyone and no one
“This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. ‘You’re...
created to create
“Have you ever noticed our culture lives off other people’s acts of creation? Consider how many ‘awards’ shows fill the television schedule – the Grammys, the People’s Choice Awards, the MTV Awards, the Golden Globes, the Dove...
ability, opportunity, Lucy
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” – Lucille Ball I recently had a meeting with a manager. I was doing some research on him beforehand, and I loved his website. He had some really great...
never have a backup plan
A lot of times people ask me if I have a timeline for acting… Do I have a certain number of years I plan on staying in LA? The answer is no. And this...
predicting the unpredictable
It’s hard to plan in this business. Here are just a few wonderful things I have seen that can happen: – You can book a role and get sick. (A friend of mine booked...
the armor of acting
The following in an excerpt from BackStage from a recent interview with actress Eva Green, aka Vesper Lynd in 2005’s “Casino Royale.” “Even though Green has experienced how challenging the business of acting can be,...
the art of unemployment con’t…
This quote by Nathan Fillion, the lead in the ABC series “Castle” really stood out to me and completely echoes my previous post, “the art of unemployment.” “You understand that your job as an...
everybody talks
If there’s one thing that I have learned here in LA it’s that everyone has their own opinion… I once met an agent who told me that she “wouldn’t know where to put me”...
the art of unemployment
I don’t think I really knew what I was getting into when I decided that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession. While most of my other friends graduated from college and got...
