In the HBO documentary, Casting By, the late casting director Marion Dougherty, talks about how it didn’t really matter to her if actors bombed auditions. Or sucked. Or weren’t great all the time. What mattered is that she saw something in them and knew that eventually there would be a role that would come alongRead more
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We’re all 7’s Looking for 11’s. Get over it. In fact, the sooner you make the realization that the “perfect” fill-in-the-blank doesn’t exist, not only will you be much happier, but ironically, you’ll find perfection in what is. Huh? An 11 is a false perception of what we think perfection looks like. We’ve all seenRead more
The moment – meaning this moment we’re living right now and each subsequent moment we are given – has the power to evoke our greatness. The possibility for us to realize our potential in each moment is always available to us. But we’re scared of our greatness. We’re scared to embrace who we knowRead more
The word meditation often conjures images of one sitting in silence for hours at a time and being a yogi. But if we take the concept of what meditation really is – a way to connect to self, gain insight into our true nature, become more objective about our reality and how we react toRead more
No matter how successful we’ve become or how long we’ve been at this game, we constantly have to overcome our fears to reach new heights of growth and discovery. Recently, I spoke to a stage manager who is working on a show on Broadway. He told me about a seventy-year old Oscar-nominated, Tony award-winningRead more
Thinking that we’re all alone in the world and that it’s always “us” vs. “them” or that everyone is our competition or a threat to our existence until proven differently, can be a very draining and negative way to live and respond to our environment. But what if we began to see things asRead more
Why are we doing this? It’s important to ask ourselves this question. For whom? Do you ever stop and ask yourself why you want to act? Or Create? Or live your life as an artist? Sometimes we lose connection to – or allow the business to contaminate – the original reasons why we wanted toRead more
Throughout your life and your career, you’re going to have to give yourself the green light. Again and again. No one else is ever going to give it to you. It doesn’t matter what level of success you achieve. How many people know you or your work. How many previous projects you’ve done or ifRead more
How do we move past our “Blurred Lines”? You know, the stuff that often makes us unable to see our emotional situations clearly. Well it won’t be by staying at the level from which confusion or blurriness is created. If you want peace, equanimity, clarity and access to wide-open spaces in your mind, youRead more
Last week I discussed not letting our reptilian vagus nerve get the better of us in stressful situations (like auditioning or asking Heidi Klum out on a date or parachuting at 10,000 feet) and thereby shutting us down from the potential of expressing empowered, authentic feeling that these experiences may evoke. But just likeRead more