Acting Magazine Acting Stories Index

By Carmichael Phillip

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    “I’m Geoffrey Owens and I am an actor!”

    5 Basic Facts about Lee Strasberg

    5 Basic Facts About Viola Davis 

    5 Facts About Denzel Washington

    7 Basic Facts About Konstantin Stanislavski

    Actor Stories: Ann Dowd Perseveres, Getting Her Big Break at Age 56!

    Actor Stories: How Tiffany Haddish Went from Homelessness to Hollywood Success

    Actor Stories: Michael Clarke Duncan Allegedly Lied on His Résumé to Get His Big Break at Age 42!

    ACTOR STORY | “It’s About Nothing!” 

    ACTOR STORY | Charles S. Dutton Began His Acting Career in Prison

    ACTOR STORY | Geoffrey Owens’ Rise and Fall…and Rise Again!

    ACTOR STORY | Have I been booking out too much? 

    ACTOR STORY | How Chadwick Boseman Almost Gave Up on Acting, Before He Became a Legend 

    ACTOR STORY | How Ed O’Neill Landed His Breakout Role by Making a Bold Choice 

    ACTOR STORY | How John Krasinski Almost Gave Up on Acting

    ACTOR STORY | How Luke Perry Almost Gave Up on Acting

    ACTOR STORY | How Matt Damon Created His Own Opportunity, and Made Himself into a Star 

    ACTOR STORY | How Rashida Jones Almost Gave Up on Acting

    ACTOR STORY | How Sylvester Stallone Made Himself into a Star

    ACTOR STORY | How Tyler Perry Went from Homeless to Hollywood Mogul

    ACTOR STORY | Issa Rae Creates a Role…and Casts Herself!

    ACTOR STORY | Jenna Fischer Recalls Her First Day in LA, as an Aspiring Actor

    ACTOR STORY | Molly Shannon’s 10-Year-Struggle to Beat the Odds in Hollywood

    ACTOR STORY | My First Zoom Callback 

    ACTOR STORY | Technical Difficulties Ruined My Virtual Audition! 

    ACTOR STORY | That Time I Crashed an Audition, and Lived to Tell About It!

    ACTOR STORY | How Aaron Paul Got His Big Break 

    ACTOR STORY | “Just Show Up!” 

    ACTOR STORY | A Casting Director Hunted Me Down for a Self-Tape 

    ACTOR STORY | How the Late Michael K. Williams Almost Gave Up on Acting 

    ACTOR STORY | I Got an Acting Job Without Auditioning! 

    ACTOR STORY | I’m Officially Done with In-Person Auditions! 

    ACTOR STORY | Ice-T’s Wild Toilet Audition 

    ACTOR STORY | Mark Ruffalo was Hiding in Plain Sight 

    ACTOR STORY | My Girlfriend Was My Reader for Self-Tape Auditions 

    All Acting and No Play Makes You a Dull Actor

    Before You Blame Your Agent….

    Bill Nighy: “I still don’t have a process” 

    Bryan Cranston: “I knew I wanted to become an actor. I’m not going to have a fallback plan.”

    Constance Wu: “You have to detach yourself from the result.”

    Deadlines Are DEAD-lines

    Did Method Acting Break Will Smith? 

    Do Casting Directors Even See Our Self-Tapes? 

    Find Your Paragon Actor

    Happy New Year, Actors!

    How Ben Stiller Got Into Acting

    How Denzel Washington Got Started in Acting

    How Did Ice Cube Get Into Acting

    Jeff Daniels’ Advice to Actors

    Kate Winslet’s Advice to Actors

    Mandy Patinkin: “Don’t become an actor, unless you HAVE to.”

    Michael Caine: “A film actor must be able to dream another person’s dreams.”

    Michael Caine: “Listening is really what acting is all about”

    Michael Caine: “Real people struggle NOT to show their feelings”

    Morgan Freeman’s Advice to Actors

    My Self-Tape Evolution 

    Natalie Martinez: “Just keep working hard, because the struggle never stops.” 

    One Fact About Post-Audition Fears That You Should Always Remember 

    OPINION | Actors, Social Media is Fake as F&%k! 

    OPINION | Casting Directors Should Give Us Feedback on Our Self-Tapes! 

    OPINION | Self-Taping is a Godsend! 

    OPINION | The Self-Tape Request from Hell!

    OPINION | Same-Day Auditions Feel Disrespectful 

    OPINION | What Annoys Me the Most About Casting Directors? Ambiguity! 

    Special Skills Means Special Skills

    The Acting World Goes Virtual 

    The Callback Checklist

    The Latino Actor: An Uphill Battle for Representation and Inclusion

    The Pandemic Ruined My Actor Life!

    The Power of Positive Thinking

    The Virtual Audition Waiting Room

    There is Power in Your Eyelids

    Three Different Scenes for a Self-Tape! 

    What Actor Turned Down the Most Money?

    What are Animal Exercises?

    What is a Backstory?

    What is the Pick-an-Eye Technique?

    What is the Private Moment Exercise?

    Who is the actor in the sleep Company ad? (Anil Kapoor)

    Who is the Hardest Actor to Work With in Hollywood?

    Who is the Least Known Actor?

    You’re Not Really Acting When You’re Over-Acting

     


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