The Competitive Life: A Precept for Living
Don’t compete! It isn’t necessary or required. Being well schooled or being in the habit of practicing your craft is your requirement in order for success to happen; that is to say… if it ever happens. For what we do or contrive to do as actors is our addiction to nothing more than a personal...
Read More Interviewin’ da harv
Interviews can be fun and informative, especially when the interviewer has done their homework. Yi Tian not only enjoys her work, but shows up thoroughly prepared as a professional interviewer. I found her questions to be well thought out, and substantive. I do believe most actors may gain something from what follows. You can find...
Read More Improvisation
Answering a question I’ve been asked over and over again is worthwhile for me to do, when I determine the number of actors my answer may be helping. One question comes at me more often than any of the others. “What can I do to keep myself up to date and in the game?” Basically...
Read More Cope!
Often, as most of us do, as we wade through more of life’s unexpected chores, we may boohoo the happening as being undeserved, unwarranted, and even unfair. “Why me Lord, oh why me?” is often murmured to one’s self. Is there a person out there who hasn’t had a comparable inner debate at one time...
Read More “To adlib or not to adlib; ah that is the question!”
“To adlib or not to adlib; ah that is the question!” Whether it is nobler or not nobler in the minds of most men, is definitely not the question; it’s the challenge that counts! (Besides… we’re talking about actors and actresses.) The search for the answer to the actor’s commercial voice over performance decision making...
Read More Focus
No man is lonely while he’s eating spaghetti; it takes so much attention. (Think about it.) But perhaps we should call it “focus.” If one doesn’t focus when he or she consumes any form of life’s sustenance, then he or she, a.k.a. “the consumer”, is destined to be forever known as the consummate slob. A...
Read More Outtakes & Intakes
I have never saved an outtake. I may have recorded them during a session or an audition, but by the end of the day, that same day, they were erased and discarded forever. Going one step further, I have never shared a recorded outtake with anyone other than the actor who had delivered the blooper...
Read More Be the Judge
“While I am still alive, I plan on living forever.” “Don’t die, until you’re dead.” – HK / 2010 You Be The Judge “Will You Be Living Forever” So many of us would have quit if we made the mistake of listening to or taking advice from someone deemed by society to be in a...
Read More Some Special Days In May
It’s a very old and over worked cliché – you know, the one about how time keeps flying by. I would guess everybody has said it at one time or another. Only the very young little kids, awaiting something great like Christmas morning, or summer vacation to begin, measure time as if it were at...
Read More Bittersweet
On any given day it will occur. When a moment is just for me, not to be shared. Not because I object to sharing, but rather sometimes I find it better to keep a feeling and the emotions which were brought on by a moment, unannounced and, without warning, to myself. I don’t know, it’s...
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