YOUR BEHAVIOR CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOU AS AN ACTOR:

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS:

 

YOUR BEHAVIOR CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOU AS AN ACTOR:

 

 

DON'T THINK YOU ARE OW'ED ANYTHING, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT>>> The sooner you realize that the business doesn’t owe you anything, the better. You’re not owed a part on a show. You’re not owed a good reader (a person reading the script with you, often off camera)  You’re not owed an agent who fights for you. This isn’t a cynical way of looking at things; it’s releasing anyone else but you of the responsibility of making things happen. When a reader doesn’t give you anything, you can choose to use that as an opportunity to work harder in the scene and try to affect her/him, or use it as an excuse for why you didn’t book the role. Your lack of an agent can make you while away the days in coffee shops, spewing bitterness about the business to anyone who’ll listen, or it can make you write, shoot, and distribute your own content. One gets things done, and the other does nothing at all. Thinking that you are owed something is death in this business. The business can’t ever give you everything you want. That’s not the nature of it. It is a wild beast that can’t be tamed. Believing that the beast owes you anything will only cause you pain and keep you from your goal.