-Michael Caine
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
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This very common phrase throws actors for a loop often! You are not alone. This vague sentence can be very daunting: do they mean my full reel and headshot and resume OR do they want to see my commercial work and my portfolio of looks? Ahhhh my reel and headshot are OLD. OMG I don’t have […]
January 30, 2018
Piggy-backing on last week’s post, I hate to break it to you, but I am pretty on point with this. Here are some things you will roughly 99% do in your first few years in LA, in no particular order: – Everyone from where you used to live will think everything you do is interesting […]
January 25, 2018
Oh the perks of being in SAG….well…screeners mostly. I love being able to vote for these awards because it really pushes me to watch things I would not have and see some performances I would have sadly missed. So let me encourage YOU to sample a little of all of these, but if you’re curious, […]
January 20, 2018
I can’t tell you how often this comes up in conversations since I started this site, and even before that. I have never been bothered by this question because to me it means I must come off as knowledgeable in some way….cool. In our awesome Broke Actors Facebook group (if you’re reading this and you’re […]
January 16, 2018
Listen, sick days suck no matter the job. What makes them harder as actors is that our voice and physical appearance is what sells us in auditions a lot of the time. And we all know those are hit the hardest after a cold, flu, stomach bug, or my flavor of the week: food poisoning. […]
January 12, 2018
Ok, Oprah. And then some other stuff. Just kidding…kinda. I know this may be old news to some of you by now, but if you missed the Golden Globes you need to know this stuff. And don’t tell me “I don’t care about those stupid awards shows” because that’s second place to saying “I don’t watch […]
January 7, 2018
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