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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 | 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
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.”
Did Method Acting Break Will Smith?
Do Casting Directors Even See Our Self-Tapes?
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
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 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 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?
You’re Not Really Acting When You’re Over-Acting
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