Only GREAT actors can develop, over the course of many years, a suitable and successful professional career. If you are good, very good, you can get cast from time to time, perhaps even regularly if you make yourself continually available. But nobody will be dying to cast you, and in a business as competitive as the theater (or films or television) it is having people dying to cast you that is, over the long run, pretty much what it takes to ensure a permanent career. It takes directors, producers, and casting directors who will think of you when youre not around; who will take the trouble to hunt you out and negotiate with others for your services. That means that you are more than a good actor; it means you are an exciting actor; one who has the capacity to quicken their pulse and enliven their imagination - and, if theirs, an audiences as well. The only alternative to being a great actor is to be selling yourself day by day in what is clearly going to remain what it is today; a buyers market. And this is a difficult ways to have to spend your life. -RC
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:31:35 +0000
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