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“If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” -Chinese Proverb Help me if you can, I’m feeling downAnd I do appreciate you being ’roundHelp meContinue reading “Help…But Don’t Hide”

“An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.” -Michael Chekhov For the actor…(I love the Chekhov quote above) Strive to be filled and still. Another way of putting it is to feel deeply but conceal greatly. Some examples that come to mind…this and this and this.

“You must set your hands to tasks which you can finish or at least hope to finish, and avoid those which get bigger as you proceed and do not cease where you had intended.” -Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life “If the first thing you do in the morning is to eat the frog, thenContinue reading “Completion”

You can be gifted, but not talented. Huh? Hear me out… Gifted means you have a natural proclivity for something.  It’s something you’re born with. You’re tall, strong, good at math, you can jump high, run fast, play an instrument perfectly for the first time, draw, paint, sing like a lark, etc…You didn’t do anythingContinue reading “Gifted Vs. Talented”

I might be wrong, I might be wrongI could have sworn I saw a light coming onI used to think, I used to thinkThere was no future left at allI used to think Open up, begin again -Radiohead, “I Might Be Wrong” “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformedContinue reading “Metanoia”

Talent is taste. Knowing what specifically you love, why you love it and what about it is exceptional to you. Your taste will lead you. It will force you to develop skills that match your taste and your ambition. It will not allow you to settle until you manifest that dream in your head. That’sContinue reading “Talent Is Taste”

“Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.Now it looks as though they’re here to stay.Oh, I believe in yesterday.” The Beatles, Yesterday “I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throwContinue reading “Yesterday”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Friederich Nietzsche The reason why nobody can really explain “The Method” when it comes to acting is because there is no method. (Read this excellent New Yorker article about the justContinue reading “No Method”

“It gets easier. Everyday it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it everyday, that’s the hard part.” -BoJack Horseman “Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time.” -Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge For almost anyContinue reading “Easy & Hard”

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” -Ecclesiastes 3:1 Hang on to your hopes, my friendThat’s an easy thing to sayBut if your hopes should pass awaySimply pretend that you can build them againLook aroundThe grass is highThe fields are ripeIt’s the springtime of my life -songContinue reading “On Hold”