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It is very important to look at your career as a marathon race and not a sprint.  It is something you invest in and nurture, something that takes patience and hard work.
Beth Maitland and I have written a great deal about having yourself set up to weather your first year in Hollywood.  Good planning will take care of most problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Most new actors will go to an audition and think the ultimate goal is to book that job.
It is and it isn’t.
We always hope and wish the outcome of any audition is for the actor to get the part, but that can’t be.  There are far too many actors going up for the same role.  How can you audition and not get the part and still have it be a success? Read the rest of this entry »

I have been asked many times how I got my first job in Hollywood as an actor and I’m always reluctant to tell my students the story as it is so atypical.  It really doesn’t happen to most actors, but I’ll tell it just to prove that there is always an exception to every rule.
I was a working actor in New York when I came out to Los Angeles to try to get into TV and Film.  I had an agent in NY that had an office in Hollywood as well.  I came out to Hollywood for a week, just to check it out – to see if I liked it here – to see if I can live here.  My agency set me up with many “General Auditions” that week. Read the rest of this entry »