Acting Wisdom – Steven Spielberg
This week's Acting Wisdom quote comes from Steven Spielberg ~ "I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living."
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03, 2016
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03, 2016
Audition Room Tips
Here are 12 tips to use in the casting room: 1. Come to work and not to please or get approval. 2. Enter the room with certainty. Show them who you are. 3. Own the room. It’s your time to shine! 4. Don’t apologize or make excuses. For anything. 5. Ask questions only [...]
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02, 2016
Acting Wisdom – Alan Rickman
This week's Acting Wisdom quote comes from Alan Rickman ~ "All I want to see from an Actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening."
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01, 2016
Acting Wisdom – Sanford Meisner
This week's Acting Wisdom quote comes from the late, great acting teacher, Sanford Meisner ~ "Acting is Behaving Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances."
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01, 2016
AWS Reaches 400 Facebook Page Likes!
Yay! We just passed 400 Likes on our Facebook page. Thank you to all who have supported us and liked our page. We’re starting 2016 Strong, and it’s going to be a Great Year!!!
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12, 2015
Acting Wisdom – Liam Neeson
This week's Acting Wisdom quote comes from Liam Neeson ~ "If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'" [...]
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07, 2015
Tips for Self-Taped Auditions
Actors are being asked with greater frequency to “self-tape” their auditions and e-mail them directly to the casting office or production team. What’s great about this trend is the ability to still compete for roles when you’re out of town. You can be anywhere in the world and not miss an audition opportunity. [...]
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06, 2015
21 Things To Make Casting Directors Happy
Casting directors are your advocates and your champions. Your work reflects on them. Your disconnected, tentative, muddled work does nothing for anyone. They want you to be great. They are there to shepherd you in, not hold you back. They want to share in your excellent work. Casting directors await you on the [...]
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05, 2015
3 Ways to Memorize Lines
Casting directors are your advocates and your champions. Your work reflects on them. Your disconnected, tentative, muddled work does nothing for anyone. They want you to be great. They are there to shepherd you in, not hold you back. They want to share in your excellent work. Write them out. This works really [...]
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02, 2015
Acting in Film
Sir Michael Caine conducted a movie acting workshop filmed by the BBC in 1987, and out of that that presentation came the book Michael Caine Acting in Film. Sir Caine offers many pearls of film acting wisdom in this terrific session. View the workshop and pick up a copy of the book to read. One great piece [...]