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    What sustains you? What keeps you going when you want to stop? What re-inspires you when you start to question whether or not it’s worth it, or you’d be better off moving back to Montana or you feel as if you’re spinning your wheels? I had a student who had been called inRead more

    Elaine Stritch said this sometime before she died, “The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval or I don’t think I’m worth two cents. And I am starting to get over it, thank God. And I’mRead more

    What if there was something you could do more often that would radically – and perceptibly – change how you’re perceived and alter the impression you leave on others? What if, as an actor, it was something that you didn’t even have to worry about “doing” because it sort of does itself onceRead more

I went to Wimbledon. And I was also lucky to have watched the bikers in the Tour De France cycle past me at an incredibly fast clip. Two amazing sporting events where I took away the same insight from both experiences. It’s really just about trying our best. And it’s all about being fully investedRead more

  Vulnerability leads to greater connection. Everyone probably knows that because we’ve all had vulnerable moments in life with friends or family or lovers that open us to new levels of honesty or communication or intimacy. But what if we took the idea of vulnerability out into the world in a bigger way to includeRead more

  Once again, the science is in. Ellen Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard who has been doing research since the late ’70’s – has conclusively proven that becoming mindful can change your life. There are measurable benefits to one’s creativity, competence, psychological well-being and physical health. All the places where we can getRead more

    I was talking to my mom the other day – who’s now 79 years young and has seen a lot in life. Survived a lot. And worried a lot. She was telling me how she was lying in bed the other morning trying to recall someone’s name and couldn’t think of it, whichRead more

If you boil life (and acting) down to its most basic, what is there? Love. Gratitude. Forgiveness. Letting go. (Sure there’s power and sex and conflict but if you think about every story ever written – isn’t the ultimate message about love or some permutation of it and the higher states of being that allowRead more

  Love. What else is there? Why are we here? Why do we feel compelled to tell stories and reflect back to humanity what it means to be human? Why do we sit in dark theaters with strangers and watch performances that are specific and individual, yet universal at the same time? Well if it’sRead more

How we define our reality is how we’re going to experience our reality. Einstein said, “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” SoRead more