-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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Since April my typical class now meets on Zoom. I am so grateful for this for so many reasons. I thought about leaving immediately when things shifted so drastically mid-March, but I am so very glad I stayed.
October 19, 2020
This is one of the most common questions I get asked. And I have to tell you, I absolutely made this up as I went. So please. Take everything you’re about to read with a grain of salt and know that there are like 1,000 ways to podcast. So here is just one of them.
October 7, 2020
You know when you see a self tape and you are just wow’d? Like man, that actors nailed it? Of course some actors just hit certain moments in a way, they have the cadence that draws you in, or maybe they understand the character in a way that your own past experiences may not have seen. That’s the magic right?
September 22, 2020
Answering all your questions about my experience with PR. All the details of course.
September 8, 2020
The rumors that get thrown around in this business are often next level silly. I think a weird amount of info is proliferated by actors because 1) we don’t honestly talk with each other often enough and 2) this business is so random sometimes that things solidify unjustly to “truths”.
September 2, 2020
I went on a mission to find the purpose for our sites, and I am not sure you will all love this answer, but here goes.
August 18, 2020
content overwhelm?
I understand.
I use this gently cause I know your inbox is sacred (either that or you have 5k unread messages).
