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Acting Facts - Are Actors Refusing to Hand-In Self-Tapes?
- POLL | Actors Prefer In-Person Auditions
- The Big Question Actors are Now Being Asked
- It’s Official: Your Vaccination Status Can Now Affect Your Acting Career
- One Fact About Post-Audition Fears That You Should Always Remember
- If You Weren’t an Actor, What Would You Be?
- The Asian Actor: New opportunities, and a new awakening
- 7 Good Reasons to Get New Headshots
- The Acting World Goes Virtual
- Actors Losing Health Insurance at an Alarming Rate
- 10 Actors We Loved and Lost in 2020
- What is a SAG-AFTRA Must-Join?
- 10 Reasons Why Being a Modern Actor is Bad Ass
- How to Sell Yourself in 10 Seconds or Less
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- Every Take Should Be Different, Every Performance Should Be Different
- Get to Know Zoom
- The Latino Actor: An Uphill Battle for Representation and Inclusion
- ACTOR STORY | How Aaron Paul Got His Big Break
- 5 Essential Budgeting Tips for Actors
- ACTOR STORY | How Chadwick Boseman Almost Gave Up on Acting, Before He Became a Legend
- SAG-AFTRA eligible
- Talent Agent vs. Talent Manager: What is the Difference?
- 5 Basic Facts About Uta Hagen
- 5 Basic Facts About Tom Hanks
- 5 Basic Facts About Viola Davis
- 5 Facts About Denzel Washington
- 5 Basic Facts About Robert De Niro
- Netflix and Quarantine…and Watch Some Great Acting!
- 7 Basic Facts About Meryl Streep
- Actors Who Have Tested Positive for the Coronavirus
- Keep Your Actor Body!
- 7 Basic Facts About Stella Adler
- Michael Caine: “Listening is really what acting is all about”
- 5 Basic Facts About Sanford Meisner
- Don Cheadle: “Do you want to be an actor or do you want to be a star or a celebrity?”
- Before You Blame Your Agent….
- The Callback Checklist
- What is the Private Moment Exercise?
- Funny Feel-Facts, Part II
- Lee Strasberg: “The actor must convince himself of the rightness of what he is doing”
- 5 Basic Facts about Lee Strasberg
- 5 Funny Feel-Facts About Acting
- What is a Sense Memory?
- Booking Commercials: Talent, Looks or Luck?
- Before You Approach an Agent, Get Your S@#t Together!
- 3 Helpful Suggestions When Slating
- Emma Thompson: “Never let yourself be defined by how you look.”
- What is Slating?
- 5 Basic Facts About Method Acting
- What are Animal Exercises?
- Reinvest 50% of Your Cash Back into Your Acting Business
- Will Hollywood ‘Ban’ Georgia?
- 3 Hidden Advantages of Self-taping
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Never Audition Just to Book the Job
- 5 Great Ways to Master Your Cold Read Audition
- Director John Singleton has died
- All Acting and No Play Makes You a Dull Actor
- What is a Cold Read?
- Why Acting Must Be a Need, Not a Want
- ACTOR STORY | How Luke Perry Almost Gave Up on Acting
- Why Natural Actors Still Need Training
- Actor Luke Perry has reportedly died
- What is a Backstory?
- Michael Caine: “Real people struggle NOT to show their feelings”
- Atlanta is Becoming the Hollywood of the South
- What is the Magic If?
- 5 NFL Football Players Who Became Successful Actors
- 7 Basic Facts About Konstantin Stanislavski
- 3 Brilliant Portrayals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.”
- Actors and Blackface
- On this day: Casablanca premieres
- First Interracial Kiss on Television
- Top 5 Actor-Turned-Politicians
- Don’t Focus On How You Say Your Lines. Focus On Why You Say Your Lines
- Actor Unions
- What is a Breakdown?
- Neil Simon passed away at 91
- Editorial: Crazy Rich Asians Should Set A New Trend
- “Tell Me a Little About Yourself”
- SAG-AFTRA is holding as much as $48 million for 96,000 members it cannot find
- Union vs. Non-Union
- Embrace Your Age
- Find Your Paragon Actor
- Special Skills Means Special Skills
- Acting Fact: Women claimed 24% of leading roles.
- Acting Fact: SAG-AFTRA Membership.
- Acting Fact: Roles for Women in Hollywood Compared to Men
- Acting Fact: Only About 20% of Union Actors Earn More Than $10,000 Annually
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Acting Quotes - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson : ‘Make Hollywood conform to you!’
- Denzel Washington: “If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.”
- Alan Cumming: “Overthinking is the biggest crime in acting.”
- Will Smith: “Baring yourself is what makes you look strong on camera.”
- Colin Firth: “Your character will want to resist grief.”
- David Carradine: “There are no failures in Hollywood, there are only people who gave up too soon.”
- Bill Duke: “Don’t wait for Hollywood to discover you. Discover yourself!”
- Daniel Kaluuya: “I ask the script, ‘What do you want me to do?’”
- Uta Hagen, on her definition of bad acting
- 7 Good Reasons to Get New Headshots
- Katharine Hepburn: “You don’t have to act. Let the camera do the work.”
- Michael Jai White: “This business does not support talent. It supports heat.”
- Stella Adler, On the Importance of Confidence
- The Acting World Goes Virtual
- Bill Nighy: “I still don’t have a process”
- Create Your Own Opportunities!
- Viola Davis: “I write a bio of the character.”
- Ed Harris: “Acting is a lifelong situation.”
- Edie Falco: “Just make sure you’re always working on something. Representation or not.”
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- Michael B. Jordan: “After all my auditions, I started throwing my sides away.”
- The Latino Actor: An Uphill Battle for Representation and Inclusion
- 5 Essential Budgeting Tips for Actors
- Bryan Cranston: “I knew I wanted to become an actor. I’m not going to have a fallback plan.”
- Viola Davis: “Pay Me What I’m Worth”
- Jessica Chastain: “I feel like I’m a detective, as an actor.”
- Memory vs. Imagination: Which Approach Works Best?
- Dennis Haysbert: “I think the word ‘acting’ is a bad word for what we do.”
- 5 Basic Facts About Robert De Niro
- ACTOR STORY | Molly Shannon’s 10-Year-Struggle to Beat the Odds in Hollywood
- The Push Strategy vs. The Pull Strategy
- 7 Basic Facts About Stella Adler
- Mark Hamill: “Tenacity is almost more important than talent”
- Christian Bale: “Don’t be a one-trick pony”
- Michael Caine: “Listening is really what acting is all about”
- “Education is so essential” (Jake Gyllenhaal)
- Don Cheadle: “Do you want to be an actor or do you want to be a star or a celebrity?”
- Sanford Meisner: “To be an interesting actor, you must be authentic.”
- Joe Manganiello: “You Can’t Rely on Anyone to Hand You Anything”
- Susan Saint James: ‘No amount of failure can dissuade a determined actor’
- Lee Strasberg: “The actor must convince himself of the rightness of what he is doing”
- “If you want to be an actor…that has nothing to do with Hollywood.” (William H. Macy)
- Bill Duke: “This is a business of rejection.”
- 5 Basic Facts about Lee Strasberg
- Dacre Montgomery: ‘Make bold character choices’
- You’re Not Really Acting When You’re Over-Acting
- Mandy Patinkin: “Don’t become an actor, unless you HAVE to.”
- Emma Thompson: “Never let yourself be defined by how you look.”
- 5 Basic Facts About Method Acting
- “You have to keep at it!” (Kate Winslet)
- “It’s not about losing yourself in the role. It’s about finding yourself in the role.” (Uta Hagen)
- 3 Hidden Advantages of Self-taping
- “That’s what it takes when you’re a struggling actor…You will be poor” (Jenna Fischer)
- “I jumped over fears, went through emotional glass doors” (Kim Basinger)
- Morgan Freeman’s Advice to Actors
- Bill Duke: “Acting is not pretending. Acting is becoming”
- “You can write your own things and act in your own stuff” (Emma Stone)
- “Auditioning sucks hippo d**k.” (William H. Macy)
- Jeff Daniels’ Advice to Actors
- “Just don’t give up, okay” (Molly Shannon)
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “Do not run for the sake of running”
- Charles S. Dutton: “There’s a wide river of actors and actresses. But there’s only a tiny pond of real talent.”
- Michael Caine: “A film actor must be able to dream another person’s dreams.”
- What is a Backstory?
- Mikhail Shchepkin: “You should always act truthfully”
- Michael Caine: “Real people struggle NOT to show their feelings”
- Giancarlo Esposito: “When I act, I get a better sense of who I am”
- Martin Landau: “Acting is NOT showing”
- 7 Basic Facts About Konstantin Stanislavski
- Constance Wu: “You have to detach yourself from the result.”
- Matthew McConaughey: “I love entrances and exits”
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.”
- “If I waited for Hollywood, I would still be playing mama roles” (Viola Davis)
- Happy New Year, Actors!
- “The 90% he isn’t willing to share is what I do for a living” (Martin Landau)
- Quote of the Day: Dennis Haysbert
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “When you play an evil man, look to see where he is good.”
- Andrew Garfield: ‘Treat Every Character Like a Real Person’
- “If that is acting, I don’t want to do it.” (Stella Adler)
- Quote of the day: “The problem is not that acting is hard….” (David Carradine)
- Quote of the day: “We must overcome the notion that we must be regular” (Uta Hagen)
- Quote of the day: “You can’t be boring…” (Stella Adler)
- “This industry eats women up in their 20’s and spits them out in their 30’s…”
- Quote of the day: Sanford Meisner
- “If you want to play strong, don’t blink. If you want to play weak, blink.”
- Quote of the day: “Acting is reacting” (Stella Adler)
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “There are no small parts, only small actors”
- Sanford Meisner: “Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”
- Find Your Paragon Actor
- Bryan Cranston: Don’t Audition to Get the Job
- Uta Hagen: “It’s not about losing yourself in the role”
- Marlon Brando – “To grasp the full acceptance”.
- “Be in the moment.” (Robert DeNiro)
- Acting Quote: Meryl Streep
- Viola Davis Acting Quotes
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Archives
- ACTOR STORY | My Girlfriend Was My Reader for Self-Tape Auditions
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson : ‘Make Hollywood conform to you!’
- Denzel Washington: “If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.”
- Be Prepared…or Be Prepared to Be Disappointed!
- 5 Things You Might Overlook in Your Self-Tape Instructions
- Last-Minute Auditions Stink!
- Alan Cumming: “Overthinking is the biggest crime in acting.”
- Are Actors Refusing to Hand-In Self-Tapes?
- YouTube Can Help You Book Commercials
- Will Smith: “Baring yourself is what makes you look strong on camera.”
- ACTOR STORY | How the Late Michael K. Williams Almost Gave Up on Acting
- OPINION | I Trained to Be an Actor, not a Tech Whiz!
- POLL | Actors Prefer In-Person Auditions
- The 5 Most Important Technical Aspects of a Self-Tape
- What is a Book-Out?
- The Big Question Actors are Now Being Asked
- OPINION | What Annoys Me the Most About Casting Directors? Ambiguity!
- ACTOR STORY | Technical Difficulties Ruined My Virtual Audition!
- Prepare for Your Audition and Then Just Throw It Away
- The 3-Second Pause
- ACTOR STORY | My First Zoom Callback
- Colin Firth: “Your character will want to resist grief.”
- ACTOR STORY | Ice-T’s Wild Toilet Audition
- David Carradine: “There are no failures in Hollywood, there are only people who gave up too soon.”
- 4 Ways to Combat Audition Burnout
- It’s Official: Your Vaccination Status Can Now Affect Your Acting Career
- One Fact About Post-Audition Fears That You Should Always Remember
- 10 Daily Affirmations for Actors
- OPINION | Actors, Social Media is Fake as F&%k!
- 3 Reasons an Experienced Actor Should Consider Doing Extra Work
- Bill Duke: “Don’t wait for Hollywood to discover you. Discover yourself!”
- If You Weren’t an Actor, What Would You Be?
- OPINION | Casting Directors Should Give Us Feedback on Our Self-Tapes!
- OPINION | Self-Taping is a Godsend!
- What is Relaxation?
- Why You Should Always Get Coached Before a Big Audition
- Daniel Kaluuya: “I ask the script, ‘What do you want me to do?’”
- The Ultimate Audition Preparation Checklist
- Uta Hagen, on her definition of bad acting
- The Asian Actor: New opportunities, and a new awakening
- What are Residuals?
- 7 Good Reasons to Get New Headshots
- Katharine Hepburn: “You don’t have to act. Let the camera do the work.”
- The Self-Tape Checklist
- ACTOR STORY | How Ed O’Neill Landed His Breakout Role by Making a Bold Choice
- ACTOR STORY | How Matt Damon Created His Own Opportunity, and Made Himself into a Star
- When You Don’t Have an Agent, Your Agent is You!
- Michael Jai White: “This business does not support talent. It supports heat.”
- 4 Things to Remember When Writing Your Cover Letter
- What is Taft-Hartley?
- Stella Adler, On the Importance of Confidence
- The Acting World Goes Virtual
- Actors Losing Health Insurance at an Alarming Rate
- 10 Actors We Loved and Lost in 2020
- What is a SAG-AFTRA Must-Join?
- Bill Nighy: “I still don’t have a process”
- Create Your Own Opportunities!
- Viola Davis: “I write a bio of the character.”
- Do You Have an Acting Mentor?
- Good News & Bad News for Background Actors
- The 3 Main Types of Commercials
- Ed Harris: “Acting is a lifelong situation.”
- The Easiest Way to Improve Your Acting Life? Go to Sleep!
- OPINION | The Self-Tape Request from Hell!
- 10 Reasons Why Being a Modern Actor is Bad Ass
- How to Sell Yourself in 10 Seconds or Less
- What is a Right-to-Work State?
- 7 Words That Can Trip an Actor Up
- Edie Falco: “Just make sure you’re always working on something. Representation or not.”
- The Virtual Audition Waiting Room
- The Pandemic Ruined My Actor Life!
- The Actor’s Job Description
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- Deadlines Are DEAD-lines
- Every Take Should Be Different, Every Performance Should Be Different
- Actor Stories: Michael Clarke Duncan Allegedly Lied on His Résumé to Get His Big Break at Age 42!
- Get to Know Zoom
- Michael B. Jordan: “After all my auditions, I started throwing my sides away.”
- The Latino Actor: An Uphill Battle for Representation and Inclusion
- The Knock-at-the-Door Exercise
- ACTOR STORY | How Aaron Paul Got His Big Break
- The Mirror is Not Your Friend
- 5 Essential Budgeting Tips for Actors
- ACTOR STORY | How Chadwick Boseman Almost Gave Up on Acting, Before He Became a Legend
- RIP to Chadwick Boseman
- The Most Important Element When Choosing a Monologue
- Bryan Cranston: “I knew I wanted to become an actor. I’m not going to have a fallback plan.”
- Viola Davis: “Pay Me What I’m Worth”
- 4 Things Actors Should Be Grateful for Despite the Pandemic
- There is Power in Your Eyelids
- SAG-AFTRA eligible
- Talent Agent vs. Talent Manager: What is the Difference?
- Jessica Chastain: “I feel like I’m a detective, as an actor.”
- 5 Ways the Actor’s Life Might Change After the Coronavirus
- Should an Actor Ever Work for Free?
- A Farewell to Carl Reiner
- 5 Basic Facts About Uta Hagen
- Memory vs. Imagination: Which Approach Works Best?
- Kate Winslet’s Advice to Actors
- 5 Basic Facts About Tom Hanks
- Dennis Haysbert: “I think the word ‘acting’ is a bad word for what we do.”
- 5 Basic Facts About Viola Davis
- 7 Self-Tape Instructions Actors Often Ignore
- 5 Facts About Denzel Washington
- What is the Pick-an-Eye Technique?
- 3 Misdemeanors to Avoid on Your Acting Résumé
- 5 Basic Facts About Robert De Niro
- Netflix and Quarantine…and Watch Some Great Acting!
- 7 Basic Facts About Meryl Streep
- ACTOR STORY | Geoffrey Owens’ Rise and Fall…and Rise Again!
- Actors Who Have Tested Positive for the Coronavirus
- ACTOR STORY | Molly Shannon’s 10-Year-Struggle to Beat the Odds in Hollywood
- Keep Your Actor Body!
- Quarantine and Build
- Don’t Do These 7 Things When Choosing a Monologue
- The Push Strategy vs. The Pull Strategy
- 7 Basic Facts About Stella Adler
- Mark Hamill: “Tenacity is almost more important than talent”
- Don’t Panic! It’s Just a Redirect.
- ACTOR STORY | How Rashida Jones Almost Gave Up on Acting
- Christian Bale: “Don’t be a one-trick pony”
- 5 Great New Year’s Resolutions for Actors
- 10 Reasons You Didn’t Book the Role You Should Have Booked
- Michael Caine: “Listening is really what acting is all about”
- What is the Repetition Exercise?
- “Education is so essential” (Jake Gyllenhaal)
- 5 Basic Facts About Sanford Meisner
- ACTOR STORY | That Time I Crashed an Audition, and Lived to Tell About It!
- Don Cheadle: “Do you want to be an actor or do you want to be a star or a celebrity?”
- Before You Blame Your Agent….
- Sanford Meisner: “To be an interesting actor, you must be authentic.”
- 3 Important Questions to Answer Before Your Next Headshot Photoshoot
- The Callback Checklist
- Why Building Relationships with Casting Directors is So Important
- Joe Manganiello: “You Can’t Rely on Anyone to Hand You Anything”
- What is the Private Moment Exercise?
- Funny Feel-Facts, Part II
- 3 Reasons Why It Sucks to Do Student Films
- Susan Saint James: ‘No amount of failure can dissuade a determined actor’
- Set Aside One Day Each Week for Your Acting Business
- How to Turn Your Audition Trash into Audition Treasure
- What is Type?
- Lee Strasberg: “The actor must convince himself of the rightness of what he is doing”
- Don’t Audition Solely for the Purpose of Booking the Role
- 5 Good Reasons to Do Student Films
- “If you want to be an actor…that has nothing to do with Hollywood.” (William H. Macy)
- What is a Student Film?
- Bill Duke: “This is a business of rejection.”
- 3 Reasons Your Audition Ended Quickly
- 5 Basic Facts about Lee Strasberg
- Dacre Montgomery: ‘Make bold character choices’
- 5 Funny Feel-Facts About Acting
- 3 Minor Violations to Avoid on Your Acting Résumé
- What are “Profiles”?
- You’re Not Really Acting When You’re Over-Acting
- Mandy Patinkin: “Don’t become an actor, unless you HAVE to.”
- The Rundown
- What is a Sense Memory?
- Booking Commercials: Talent, Looks or Luck?
- What are Notes, Adjustments and Redirects?
- Never Apologize When You Make a Mistake During an Audition
- Never Do This on Your Acting Résumé!
- 5 General Rules for Demo Reels
- Before You Approach an Agent, Get Your S@#t Together!
- 3 Helpful Suggestions When Slating
- 5 Reasons Why Background Acting is a $h*tty Job
- Look to Acting to Be Your Creative Savior, Not Your Financial Savior
- 5 Riddles Every Actor Must Solve
- Emma Thompson: “Never let yourself be defined by how you look.”
- What is Slating?
- 5 Basic Facts About Method Acting
- What are Inner Motives?
- What are Animal Exercises?
- ACTOR STORY | How John Krasinski Almost Gave Up on Acting
- Make Sure Your Name is Added to the “Nice” List
- Reinvest 50% of Your Cash Back into Your Acting Business
- “You have to keep at it!” (Kate Winslet)
- 5 Benefits of Being a Background Actor
- Actor Stories: How Sylvester Stallone Made Himself into a Star
- “You do have to keep working at it. You do have to keep practicing things.” (Kate Winslet)
- Will Hollywood ‘Ban’ Georgia?
- “It’s not about losing yourself in the role. It’s about finding yourself in the role.” (Uta Hagen)
- 3 Hidden Advantages of Self-taping
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Never Audition Just to Book the Job
- 5 Great Ways to Master Your Cold Read Audition
- ACTOR STORY | Issa Rae Creates a Role…and Casts Herself!
- 5 Things You Should Never Do After an Audition
- “That’s what it takes when you’re a struggling actor…You will be poor” (Jenna Fischer)
- Narrow Your Focus
- Don’t Sabotage Yourself
- “I jumped over fears, went through emotional glass doors” (Kim Basinger)
- Director John Singleton has died
- Morgan Freeman’s Advice to Actors
- What are Actions?
- All Acting and No Play Makes You a Dull Actor
- Acting: When is it Time to Quit?
- Bill Duke: “Acting is not pretending. Acting is becoming”
- Don’t Just Tell a Talent Agent About Your Dreams. Show Them Your Work!
- How to Audition When You Know the Role Has Already Been Cast
- What is a Cold Read?
- “You can write your own things and act in your own stuff” (Emma Stone)
- The Callback is Not the Time for Experimenting
- “Auditioning sucks hippo d**k.” (William H. Macy)
- Why Acting Must Be a Need, Not a Want
- What is a Background Actor?
- Jeff Daniels’ Advice to Actors
- What is an Obstacle?
- ACTOR STORY | How Luke Perry Almost Gave Up on Acting
- Invite Talent Agents and Casting Directors to Pursue You
- “Just don’t give up, okay” (Molly Shannon)
- Check Your Ego at the Door, But Bring Your Confidence into the Audition Room
- Actor Stories: Jenna Fischer Recalls Her First Day in LA, as an Aspiring Actor
- Why Natural Actors Still Need Training
- What is “Being in the Moment”?
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “Do not run for the sake of running”
- Charles S. Dutton: “There’s a wide river of actors and actresses. But there’s only a tiny pond of real talent.”
- What is the Super-Objective?
- When You Speak Words You Don’t Truly Understand, You Are Not Truly Acting
- What is the Unbroken Line?
- Michael Caine: “A film actor must be able to dream another person’s dreams.”
- Actor Luke Perry has reportedly died
- What is Continuity?
- Don’t Be Afraid to Politely Ask for an Audition Do-Over
- ACTOR STORY | How Tyler Perry Went from Homeless to Hollywood Mogul
- What is a Backstory?
- 3 Good Reasons to see BlacKkKlansman
- Mikhail Shchepkin: “You should always act truthfully”
- Michael Caine: “Real people struggle NOT to show their feelings”
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Not Pursue Local Hire Roles
- Trivia Answer
- Atlanta is Becoming the Hollywood of the South
- Fall in Love with Acting, All Over Again!
- Top 10 List of Actors Who Found Fame Later in Life
- Breaking Bad
- Giancarlo Esposito: “When I act, I get a better sense of who I am”
- What is the Magic If?
- Martin Landau: “Acting is NOT showing”
- Actor Kristoff St. John found dead
- 5 NFL Football Players Who Became Successful Actors
- 3 Great New Year’s Resolutions for Actors
- 7 Basic Facts About Konstantin Stanislavski
- What is the Substitution Technique?
- “I’m Geoffrey Owens and I am an actor!”
- Constance Wu: “You have to detach yourself from the result.”
- What are the Given Circumstances?
- Matthew McConaughey: “I love entrances and exits”
- 3 Brilliant Portrayals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Trivia Answer
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.”
- Actor Stories: How Tiffany Haddish Went from Homelessness to Hollywood Success
- “If I waited for Hollywood, I would still be playing mama roles” (Viola Davis)
- 4 Great Reasons to Audition with Your Sides In Your Hands
- Actors and Blackface
- What is Affective Memory?
- Trivia Answer
- On this day: Casablanca premieres
- “The 90% he isn’t willing to share is what I do for a living” (Martin Landau)
- Trivia Answer
- Actor Stories: Ann Dowd Perseveres, Getting Her Big Break at Age 56!
- Beware Career Advice from Family During the Holidays
- Trivia Answer
- First Interracial Kiss on Television
- Headshots are like bread. They can get “stale” over time.
- Quote of the Day: Dennis Haysbert
- Screenwriting Star William Goldman dies at 87
- Model and actress Kim Porter was found dead Thursday at her L.A. area home. She was 47.
- Trivia Answer
- What is an Objective?
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “When you play an evil man, look to see where he is good.”
- Top 5 Actor-Turned-Politicians
- Andrew Garfield: ‘Treat Every Character Like a Real Person’
- Don’t Focus On How You Say Your Lines. Focus On Why You Say Your Lines
- Trivia Answer
- Trivia Answer
- “If that is acting, I don’t want to do it.” (Stella Adler)
- What is a Booking Ratio?
- Quote of the day: “The problem is not that acting is hard….” (David Carradine)
- Rock Hudson Dies from AIDS-related complications
- David Carradine Quotes on Acting
- ACTOR STORY | Charles S. Dutton Began His Acting Career in Prison
- Stella Adler Quotes
- Actor Unions
- Editorial: Geoffrey Owens and an actor’s right to privacy and survival
- What is a Breakdown?
- Quote of the day: “We must overcome the notion that we must be regular” (Uta Hagen)
- Make Sure That You Are the Star of Your Headshot
- Neil Simon passed away at 91
- Editorial: Crazy Rich Asians Should Set A New Trend
- What is a “Casting Director”
- “Tell Me a Little About Yourself”
- Charlotte Rae dies at 92
- On August 7, 1992, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven premieres in the US
- What are Sides?
- Quote of the day: “You can’t be boring…” (Stella Adler)
- On this day, in 1962, Marilyn Monroe, died of an overdose of barbiturates
- SAG-AFTRA is holding as much as $48 million for 96,000 members it cannot find
- “This industry eats women up in their 20’s and spits them out in their 30’s…”
- Top Secret: Wear your audition outfit to the callback!
- On July 30, 1999, The Blair Witch Project was released to the masses
- What is a “Callback”?
- Quote of the day: Sanford Meisner
- Bob Hope Passes Away
- “If you want to play strong, don’t blink. If you want to play weak, blink.”
- What is an “Audition”?
- Don’t join SAG-AFTRA (too fast)!
- Beef-up Your Acting Résumé with Training, Not Lies!
- Quote of the day: “Acting is reacting” (Stella Adler)
- Konstantin Stanislavski: “There are no small parts, only small actors”
- Sanford Meisner: “Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”
- What is “Financial Core (Fi-Core)”?
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