A kind stranger left this sign in London! So acting is a little bit like dating (bear with me there is a point and a correlation). When you want to start dating again you need to be in tip top condition. You get a great haircut, new outfits, sometimes a complete makeover, and then you get […]
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© Pixelcarpenter | Dreamstime.com Fear in the deepest darkest recesses of our imagination. Lurking there, always telling us we aren’t good enough, we can’t have it all, we can’t be everything to the stage or television or cinema. Fear telling us to get a real job and stop acting like an acting hooligan. Fear screaming at us in our dreams […]
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we actually had the ability to get excited about something, put it to the universe and then were totally able to take it out of our conscious mind so the world could do that thing it so magically does. But instead, what happens? We get an idea or a long […]
So you probably thought from the title that I was talking about your ‘possie’ (Entourage style)… but I was being sneaky. I’m actually here to talk about your perfect position. Your perfect moment. Your perfect place to be for success. Your perfect amount of training before you can go out and meet agents. Your perfect […]
“Comparing yourself, your career, your jobs, your looks, your anything, to someone else will take away your own uniqueness.” What a wicked evil little trap we actor fall into sometimes. The idea that we aren’t good enough because Lou, Mary and Renee are doing so much better than we are.Sure maybe their IMDB lists are […]
How many times can you get penciled for work… The call comes through from your agent while you are midway through a 6-inch sub and dreaming about the days when you’ll be eating at Nobu instead. You animatedly thank your agent and then the waiting begins. You’ve been here a million times.I’ve also heard the […]
Ladies and girls, boys and men. Do you know what? You are already so many things! Consider how far you have already come in your growth and well being. Consider the depth and breath of you as a person – you the wonderful giving soul that people want to constantly have and be around, want […]
It’s a funny old thing, the word ‘bold‘. This week I was chatting with a pal on email about being bold and making bold choices and this word just stuck with me. I couldn’t shake it off. BOLDLY go where no girl has gone before. How can you be bold? What makes you bold? Bold […]
Last week I had a wonderful and very grounding moment where I was reminded about not being complacent in this industry. I was called by a Casting Director about an audition for a paid film role and asked to audition. That night I read the film script (it was great!) and I really wanted to […]
Okay well maybe I haven’t been watching you from behind the curtains checking your every move. It might be better to say here are 10 things I know about your acting career! Here they are. My top 10 tips as we leave the Olympic mayhem and get stuck back into acting to take the second half […]