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Good advice, Boss. Trouble is, most nineteen year olds don’t know how to do that. Most 40 year olds don’t know how to do that. It’s tough to stop listening to the little voices in your head that tell you to listen to the people around you who "know better", who have some "authority" because they have credentials, when in fact, those credentials probably scare them more than they intimidate other people. Carl

We are in agreement far too often these days Carl. You’re really scaring me now!  8^) Drama Queen — "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."                                                    –Hugh Downs

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We are in agreement far too often these days Carl. You’re really scaring me now!  8^)

Wait a minute! Where *else* did we agree? Dammit…knew I should have stayed away from that mescaline this weekend… Carl ‘Wesistance is futiwe! Pwepawe to be assimiwated! Huh-uh-uh’- Elmer of Borg * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet’s Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet – Free!

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Good advice, Boss. Trouble is, most nineteen year olds don’t know how to do that. Most 40 year olds don’t know how to do that. It’s tough to stop listening to the little voices in your head that tell you to listen to the people around you who "know better", who have some "authority" because they have credentials, when in fact, those credentials probably scare them more than they intimidate other people. Carl ‘Wesistance is futiwe! Pwepawe to be assimiwated! Huh-uh-uh’- Elmer of Borg * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet’s Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet – Free!

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Wow, DQ.  You give a lot when you’re not annoyed.  Great post. It’s kind of nice around alt.acting lately.  The air is sort of clear. What’s going on?  Have we all moved to Canada without realizing it? Robert. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is truly a brilliant news group filled with alot of intelligent and experienced people. I especially found Opus’s comments very eye opening and immediately understood what he/she? was trying to convey. But I am very young (turning 19 soon) and am under different circumstances, my parents and family and others continually put me down, telling me I’m never going to get anywhere acting, and will end up unemployed for the rest of my life. I understand exactly where you are coming from. It is important for you to insulate yourself from the "Dream Stealers". Set your compass for true north and don’t allow those around you to tell you cannot achieve your goals and/or desires. Whatever the mind can conceive, …you can surely achieve. "If you think you can do a thing or you think you can’t do a thing, you’re right."  -Henry Ford You state your chronological age as if it was an indicator of your inabilities. As if your youth is to your detriment. On the contrary. Your youth can be to your advantage. Being too young & too inexperienced to know you cannot do something, can at times be your biggest asset in actually achieving it. It’s important that you safeguard your attitude because that will always determine your altitude. If the proper coaching is unavailable to you at home, …don’t worry. That simply means that you will simply have to seek it out elsewhere. The fact that you’ve come here to this NG, is evidence of the fact that you are looking for the proper encouragement & support that you’re not getting from the people in your life. There are many wonderful, successful people who have overcome obstacles & challenges the likes of which we couldn’t even concieve of. Their stories, their life experiences, and the paths they took to achievement can be rather motivating and inspiring enough for us to be able to dig deep within us for the answers to the questions we are all looking for. One such book that I found helpful and inspirational to me was entitled "Don’t Tell Me It’s Impossible Until After I’ve Already Done It" by Pam Lontos. ISBN # 0-515-09358-0  Some of her reviews are as follows: "PAM LONTOS HAS WRITTEN A WINNER…She gives solid advice wrapped in inspiration ("how to") that will help you move from where you are to where you want to be. It’s simple, beautiful and inspiring"–Zig Ziglar "THE TITLE OF PAM’S BOOK SAYS IT ALL – an incredible story of someone who shouldn’t have made it at all – but she did! She inspires all of us to NEVER GIVE UP!" –Mary Kay "PAM LONTOS IS A TREMENDOUS MOTIVATOR. SHE WILL INSPIRE YOU TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU NEVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE" –Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D. co-author of "The One Minute Manager" This book helps you to understand that YES, YOU CAN… * Whether it is to begin a new career * Achieve long & short term goals * Discover untapped resources * Lose weight * Skyrocket to the top of your field, etc., etc., In it, she shares the secrets of her own phenomenal success story; how an overweight, depressed housewife conquered her fears and negative self-image to become one of America’s top saleswomen and motivational speakers. Her remarkable step-by-step methods can help YOU to break out of your shell and become the person you’ve always wanted to be. As Anthony Robbins is fond of saying "Success leaves Clues". It’s true. There are certain fundamental principles that do not change, …regardless of what areas in your life you are looking to achieve in, …or for that matter, what industries. Sometimes I think that life isn’t worth living. But then I think about acting, the way I can make people laugh when I want to, make them feel sad when I want to, and even inspire them when I’m on stage. That’s what you need to focus on. If acting is the "music" in your life, …do not allow someone else to steal *YOUR* music. We’ve all been to a dance or a nighclub, and felt a little too tired to go on dancing. Thinking we are going to go sit back at the table as soon as this song ends, …but then the DJ puts on a song that just gives you a second wind and makes you want to stay on the dance floor all night long… Have you been there? It is that passion for the music that allows you to cut the rug, …and your dreams, are the substance that fuels your fire. A man without a dream, is like a broken winged bird unable to fly, and the positive steps or the actions that you take to achieve those dreams *is* the wind beneath your wings. It’s the octane in your fuel. I can never understand why we will put locks on our cars, locks on our houses and all our possessions to keep people from stealing and vandalizing *things*. Things that can be easily replaced. It’s pretty ludicrous when you think about it. I always lock my car, yet what do I have inside that someone could steal? There’s a small supply of headshots & resumes, parking tickets, the CD player, the CD’s in the glove compartment, a Perly’s map book, a little overnight bag with soap, deodorant, makeup remover, toothpaste, toothbrush, cotton balls, razor, washcloth, moisturizer, Q-Tips, bath sponge, & a fresh panty. That’s it. Yet I lock it up. How easily is all that stuff replaced? …Yet, for some inexplicable reason, while some are safeguarding the possessions & material things, they fail to safeguard the spiritual things. Why would we throw six locks on the front door to our houses, …yet leave something so vital and intrinsically necessary to our success, so woefully unguarded? Take a stand! Refuse to allow it to happen! Your possessions can be easily replaced, …your dreams cannot be! Recently I got a scholarship to study with a well known theatre, and many told me I wasnt experienced enough or was to young to get into the theatre group but I auditioned anyway, and not only got in but got a scholarship. That did motivate me and keep me focused, but its still hard when your at my age and constantly being judged. I have no job and the only thing keeping me going at the moment is my passion for acting (I feel like I’m about to cry writing this). But its hard to stay motivated when your contantly condemned. The next time you are condemned, …focus on what you have done right. Make up a checklist of the things you need to do to achieve your goals. People don’t plan to fail, they simply fail to plan. This checklist can contain big things you know you must do. Then break those things down to the little things that must be done along the way. Make a 30, 60 & 90 day plan for yourself. Every day as you go through your list of daily activities designed to bring about your goal, you can see your progress. The nature of this business being what it is, stating to be cast as a principle in a big-budget feature, may not be a realistic 30 day goal, …however the areas you *do* have control over would be, things such as 1) Promoting Yourself as an actor. 2) Taking a class to improve your skills 3) Expanding your circle of contacts within the field 4) Finding like-minded people with whom to build a mutually supportive & informative network Etc., etc., etc. Those are just little examples off the top of my head. Your areas of priority will be your own to determine. But the more you can end the day by looking over your "List Of Daily Actions To Take", and go to sleep knowing that you’ve done everything on that list. The results will manifest themselves. It is a Universal Principle of Cause & Effect. Every Action produces a reaction or result. You simply must do the right ACTIONS to achieve the RESULTS you are looking for. The more results you achieve in the form of little steps you take, …the easier it is to continue to fuel those dreams with positive action to produce even more positive results. Have you ever seen a locomotive starting up? It sometimes takes a great deal of effort to get that baby going. The wheels start chugging away slowly, then they speed up, faster, and faster, and faster still. Have you ever seen a locomotive try to break because there’s something on the tracks? Do you realize how many yards are required in order to achieve a safe breaking distance? I don’t know the exact number per km/hr of travelling speed, …but it’s a lot! And if you’ve ever seen a runaway locomotive, you know very little can stop it. It’s the same with your life and the actions you take to achieve your results. But like everything else in life, …you must bring a goal to the table and understand why it is a goal. But this week I’ve got an interview with an AGENT and am holding onto that for strength. ANY ADVICE on how to handle the interview? (I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes) Thanks, Jimmy In conducting a lot of my activities, I like to start from the end objective, then backtrack. Have you ever worked one of those maze puzzles where you have to enter from one point, and exit through another point? Have you tried to find the correct path by starting at the entrance & trying to find the exit? Have you ever completed one of those puzzles by instead starting at the exit, and backtracking to the entrance? The first route will lead you to many twists, turns, and dead ends. The latter route however will appear quite clearly. How you handle the interview is by: 1) First determining what your objective is.   I’m going to assume it’s getting that agent to want to

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This is truly a brilliant news group filled with alot of intelligent and experienced people. I especially found Opus’s comments very eye opening and immediately understood what he/she? was trying to convey. But I am very young (turning 19 soon) and am under different circumstances, my parents and family and others continually put me down, telling me I’m never going to get anywhere acting, and will end up unemployed for the rest of my life.

I understand exactly where you are coming from. It is important for you to insulate yourself from the "Dream Stealers". Set your compass for true north and don’t allow those around you to tell you cannot achieve your goals and/or desires. Whatever the mind can conceive, …you can surely achieve. "If you think you can do a thing or you think you can’t do a thing, you’re right."  -Henry Ford You state your chronological age as if it was an indicator of your inabilities. As if your youth is to your detriment. On the contrary. Your youth can be to your advantage. Being too young & too inexperienced to know you cannot do something, can at times be your biggest asset in actually achieving it. It’s important that you safeguard your attitude because that will always determine your altitude. If the proper coaching is unavailable to you at home, …don’t worry. That simply means that you will simply have to seek it out elsewhere. The fact that you’ve come here to this NG, is evidence of the fact that you are looking for the proper encouragement & support that you’re not getting from the people in your life. There are many wonderful, successful people who have overcome obstacles & challenges the likes of which we couldn’t even concieve of. Their stories, their life experiences, and the paths they took to achievement can be rather motivating and inspiring enough for us to be able to dig deep within us for the answers to the questions we are all looking for. One such book that I found helpful and inspirational to me was entitled "Don’t Tell Me It’s Impossible Until After I’ve Already Done It" by Pam Lontos. ISBN # 0-515-09358-0  Some of her reviews are as follows: "PAM LONTOS HAS WRITTEN A WINNER…She gives solid advice wrapped in inspiration ("how to") that will help you move from where you are to where you want to be. It’s simple, beautiful and inspiring"–Zig Ziglar "THE TITLE OF PAM’S BOOK SAYS IT ALL – an incredible story of someone who shouldn’t have made it at all – but she did! She inspires all of us to NEVER GIVE UP!" –Mary Kay "PAM LONTOS IS A TREMENDOUS MOTIVATOR. SHE WILL INSPIRE YOU TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU NEVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE" –Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D. co-author of "The One Minute Manager" This book helps you to understand that YES, YOU CAN… * Whether it is to begin a new career * Achieve long & short term goals * Discover untapped resources * Lose weight * Skyrocket to the top of your field, etc., etc., In it, she shares the secrets of her own phenomenal success story; how an overweight, depressed housewife conquered her fears and negative self-image to become one of America’s top saleswomen and motivational speakers. Her remarkable step-by-step methods can help YOU to break out of your shell and become the person you’ve always wanted to be. As Anthony Robbins is fond of saying "Success leaves Clues". It’s true. There are certain fundamental principles that do not change, …regardless of what areas in your life you are looking to achieve in, …or for that matter, what industries. Sometimes I think that life isn’t worth living. But then I think about acting, the way I can make people laugh when I want to, make them feel sad when I want to, and even inspire them when I’m on stage.

That’s what you need to focus on. If acting is the "music" in your life, …do not allow someone else to steal *YOUR* music. We’ve all been to a dance or a nighclub, and felt a little too tired to go on dancing. Thinking we are going to go sit back at the table as soon as this song ends, …but then the DJ puts on a song that just gives you a second wind and makes you want to stay on the dance floor all night long… Have you been there? It is that passion for the music that allows you to cut the rug, …and your dreams, are the substance that fuels your fire. A man without a dream, is like a broken winged bird unable to fly, and the positive steps or the actions that you take to achieve those dreams *is* the wind beneath your wings. It’s the octane in your fuel. I can never understand why we will put locks on our cars, locks on our houses and all our possessions to keep people from stealing and vandalizing *things*. Things that can be easily replaced. It’s pretty ludicrous when you think about it. I always lock my car, yet what do I have inside that someone could steal? There’s a small supply of headshots & resumes, parking tickets, the CD player, the CD’s in the glove compartment, a Perly’s map book, a little overnight bag with soap, deodorant, makeup remover, toothpaste, toothbrush, cotton balls, razor, washcloth, moisturizer, Q-Tips, bath sponge, & a fresh panty. That’s it. Yet I lock it up. How easily is all that stuff replaced? …Yet, for some inexplicable reason, while some are safeguarding the possessions & material things, they fail to safeguard the spiritual things. Why would we throw six locks on the front door to our houses, …yet leave something so vital and intrinsically necessary to our success, so woefully unguarded? Take a stand! Refuse to allow it to happen! Your possessions can be easily replaced, …your dreams cannot be! Recently I got a scholarship to study with a well known theatre, and many told me I wasnt experienced enough or was to young to get into the theatre group but I auditioned anyway, and not only got in but got a scholarship. That did motivate me and keep me focused, but its still hard when your at my age and constantly being judged. I have no job and the only thing keeping me going at the moment is my passion for acting (I feel like I’m about to cry writing this). But its hard to stay motivated when your contantly condemned.

The next time you are condemned, …focus on what you have done right. Make up a checklist of the things you need to do to achieve your goals. People don’t plan to fail, they simply fail to plan. This checklist can contain big things you know you must do. Then break those things down to the little things that must be done along the way. Make a 30, 60 & 90 day plan for yourself. Every day as you go through your list of daily activities designed to bring about your goal, you can see your progress. The nature of this business being what it is, stating to be cast as a principle in a big-budget feature, may not be a realistic 30 day goal, …however the areas you *do* have control over would be, things such as 1) Promoting Yourself as an actor. 2) Taking a class to improve your skills 3) Expanding your circle of contacts within the field 4) Finding like-minded people with whom to build a mutually supportive & informative network Etc., etc., etc. Those are just little examples off the top of my head. Your areas of priority will be your own to determine. But the more you can end the day by looking over your "List Of Daily Actions To Take", and go to sleep knowing that you’ve done everything on that list. The results will manifest themselves. It is a Universal Principle of Cause & Effect. Every Action produces a reaction or result. You simply must do the right ACTIONS to achieve the RESULTS you are looking for. The more results you achieve in the form of little steps you take, …the easier it is to continue to fuel those dreams with positive action to produce even more positive results. Have you ever seen a locomotive starting up? It sometimes takes a great deal of effort to get that baby going. The wheels start chugging away slowly, then they speed up, faster, and faster, and faster still. Have you ever seen a locomotive try to break because there’s something on the tracks? Do you realize how many yards are required in order to achieve a safe breaking distance? I don’t know the exact number per km/hr of travelling speed, …but it’s a lot! And if you’ve ever seen a runaway locomotive, you know very little can stop it. It’s the same with your life and the actions you take to achieve your results. But like everything else in life, …you must bring a goal to the table and understand why it is a goal. But this week I’ve got an interview with an AGENT and am holding onto that for strength. ANY ADVICE on how to handle the interview? (I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes) Thanks, Jimmy

In conducting a lot of my activities, I like to start from the end objective, then backtrack. Have you ever worked one of those maze puzzles where you have to enter from one point, and exit through another point? Have you tried to find the correct path by starting at the entrance & trying to find the exit? Have you ever completed one of those puzzles by instead starting at the exit, and backtracking to the entrance? The first route will lead you to many twists, turns, and dead ends. The latter route however will appear quite clearly. How you handle the interview is by: 1) First determining what your objective is.   I’m going to assume it’s getting that agent to want to take you on.   As well as discovering if this agent is the right person you want to   be part of your team to get you to where you want to be. 2) Understand what would motivate that agent or any agent to want to   take on any client.   They’ll make a % of your work income. 3) Now that you understand the agents motivation, do a self-assessment    of what about you would make an agent want *you* as a client.    Will you work? Are you castable? Are you willing to take the       necessary action to fortify those areas that may be temporarily weak?    Will an agent’s investment of time & energy

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This is truly a brilliant news group filled with alot of intelligent and experienced people. I especially found Opus’s comments very eye opening and immediately understood what he/she

She’s a she. That did motivate me and keep me focused, but its still hard when your at my age and constantly being judged. I have no job and the only thing keeping me going at the moment is my passion for acting (I feel like I’m about to cry writing this). But its hard to stay motivated when your contantly

condemned. This won’t cheer you up but… It still happens at 36 so I guess it always will. But this week I’ve got an interview with an AGENT and am holding onto that for strength. ANY ADVICE on how to handle the interview? (I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes)

Be yourself, honest, brush you teeth, get plenty of sleep the night before, shake with a firm grip, dress for a job interview and above all else BE AT LEAST 5-10 MINUTES EARLY!!!! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Thanks, Jimmy

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But I am very young (turning 19 soon) and am under different circumstances, my parents and family and others continually put me down, telling me I’m never going to get anywhere acting, and will end up unemployed for the rest of my life.

I am a lady Jimmy, married, and have been a professional for about the last 7 years.  Actor, comic actress, stand-up comedienne, writer. Firstly, I’d like to kick your butt some more, but gently.  Don’t EVER let the people around you convince you that your choices for your own life are invalid, or ridiculous.  To be honest, I don’t know of too many people who post here, who do this professionally, that didn’t come from such a background.  We’ve allowed it to work positively instead of making us depressed, stifling our creative choices.  You need to stop ALLOWING that to make you discouraged and depressed, and like I said before, use it to make you more determined to do something positive about it. It’s also ridiculous to think that because you’re so young, that you once again have no choices.  Not true.  You live at home and have no job?  What a BETTER way to spend that time writing, volunteering at something!  Spend your days there.  Hang around.  Sweep floors, usher. Do something.  Ask the director if you can audit one of their classes, or if you can take some classes. Like I said before, no, I’m not in your shoes, but use these circumstances to ADJUST YOUR ATTITUDE about your life, then, after deciding if this is what you want, go out there with cotton in your ears against what anyone may say, and just DO IT.  It’s YOUR life bud. Perhaps if you go out there and DO something, rather than sitting around allowing the negative talk of those family members to drag you down, your parents will see that perhaps you are really serious about it, and once that happens, they’ll begin to help you.  Some folks are just like that.  They think they’re being helpful, but in reality they don’t realize that it’s THAT kind of butt-kicking that does damage.  Realize that they’re just trying to "protect" you from the cold, hard world. Take control of it, and I’ll let you in on a little secret:  If you can let that bake your noodle, then you’ll be living truths that it took the rest of us way too long to find out. Recently I got a scholarship

Why aren’t you doing that then?  Depression is nothing more than sadness and guilt over missed opportunities.  Don’t add that to your depression by not taking advantage of it.  I found a great quote the other day: "Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."  –Stella Terrill Mann You can be handed all the opportunities you can handle, but nothing will come of it until you decide to do it.  In the meantime, begin reading. Read, read, read.  I’ve learned more from reading other people’s experiences than I have from living my own. Good luck. — Opus (: "I’m so deep under cover, that even I don’t know I’m here."– Colonel Flagg http://www.carla.coble.com -Acting site http://members.home.net/coble/OpusGraphics -Original graphics

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is truly a brilliant news group filled with alot of intelligent and experienced people. I especially found Opus’s comments very eye opening and immediately understood what he/she? was trying to convey. But I am very young (turning 19 soon) and am under different circumstances, my parents and family and others continually put me down, telling me I’m never going to get anywhere acting, and will end up unemployed for the rest of my life. Sometimes I think that life isn’t worth living. But then I think about acting, the way I can make people laugh when I want to, make them feel sad when I want to, and even inspire them when I’m on stage. Recently I got a scholarship to study with a well known theatre, and many told me I wasnt experienced enough or was to young to get into the theatre group but I auditioned anyway, and not only got in but got a scholarship. That did motivate me and keep me focused, but its still hard when your at my age and constantly being judged. I have no job and the only thing keeping me going at the moment is my passion for acting (I feel like I’m about to cry writing this). But its hard to stay motivated when your contantly condemned. But this week I’ve got an interview with an AGENT and am holding onto that for strength. ANY ADVICE on how to handle the interview? (I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes) Thanks, Jimmy

Jimmy-  If acting is your passion, don’t give up. There are many of us actors who have not made it to where we want to be yet, but we keep going. Why? Because it makes us happy. I have heard for years from my father that I’d never amount to anything. When I was in highschool I had auditioned for AMDA(American Musical Dramatics Academy) in NY. My dad wouldn’t fill the paperwork out so they declined me due to financial reasons. I decided to keep going, doing local theater. I went to community college for a year and then auditioned for AADA(American Academy of Dramatic Arts), I made it. I still have not made it to where I want to be, but I am still doing smalltime acting. I have been in a few movies as an extra, but I keep going.    Incedentally, while I was at AADA I heard a story of one student they had many years back. This student had done a 6 week Summer course and was told he wouldn’t make it in acting. So they decided to deny him entrance for a regular Fall course. That actor was Tom Cruise. What would have happened if he let their words stop him from continuing his career?!  If you have to get a regular job to pay your bills or whatnot, then do so. Everyone has to conform a little at times. You need to survive. BUT, do not give up your dreams. Marc Berman "Still the National Jew of Rocky Horror" Actor w/ Bawdy Caste: Fremont, CA Alumni:Erotic Nightmares:Palo Alto/Belmont, CA, Cosmic Light:San Mateo, CA , Under Sedation:Sacramento, CA Guest with Zenroom:San Luis Obispo,CA

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did you take the scholarship? why don’t you have a job? you seem to have talents that people in the industry recognize. You have to reassess the importance of your friendships, if those people can’t be supportive of you, I hate to say it, but CUT THEM LOOSE. I went through the parental rejection thing, and if my friends had been negative as well, that would have been heartbreaking. However… you need to go to the school, and get some sort of job, and cultivate new friends that will stand by you. That will help with the feelings of isolation. Try not to  have only actor friends (since we’re a bit fickle) but have friends that can simply be accepting. You will always be too young or too old or too short or too tall or too ugly or too beautiful for something in this business. In a way, the rejection you’re receiving from your family is good practice for the rejection you will receive in the industry. Try to look at it like them auditioning you. The fact that they are being unfairly critical has to do with THEM, not you. (just like a casting director…it’s them… their preconceived image of the perfect character not being you is their problem) Take a while to be by yourself. If you’ve got a scholarship to this school, by all means go, and lessen contact with people that all putting you down. Your experiences with the school should be able to help convince you that you’ve made the right decision. (and if you don’t go to the school…. remember, it’s difficult to soar with eagles when you hang around with turkeys)– go read "Johnathon Livingston Seagull", it’s a very moving story about a similar situation. (and yes… I am in my 20’s…. but my mom loved that book and gave it to me) angie www.u4ia.org   Spoiled Rotten. Curious?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is truly a brilliant news group filled with alot of intelligent and experienced people. I especially found Opus’s comments very eye opening and immediately understood what he/she? was trying to convey. But I am very young (turning 19 soon) and am under different circumstances, my parents and family and others continually put me down, telling me I’m never going to get anywhere acting, and will end up unemployed for the rest of my life. Sometimes I think that life isn’t worth living. But then I think about acting, the way I can make people laugh when I want to, make them feel sad when I want to, and even inspire them when I’m on stage. Recently I got a scholarship to study with a well known theatre, and many told me I wasnt experienced enough or was to young to get into the theatre group but I auditioned anyway, and not only got in but got a scholarship. That did motivate me and keep me focused, but its still hard when your at my age and constantly being judged. I have no job and the only thing keeping me going at the moment is my passion for acting (I feel like I’m about to cry writing this). But its hard to stay motivated when your contantly condemned. But this week I’ve got an interview with an AGENT and am holding onto that for strength. ANY ADVICE on how to handle the interview? (I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes) Thanks, Jimmy

I caved in a few times and tried the old proper job thing…twice the company I went to work for went bust and the other time I got sacked when I complained about my boss taking bribes…so much for looking for job security my father stopped criticising my choice of working in theatre when he had to quit his job through ill health, my sister when she had to leave hers to care for her stroke victim husband…there is no such thing as job security, there is just an illusion of it that people can buy into if they want to live a worry free life in a fantasy world…don’t let it get to you…you are living in the real world, others are not 19 is very young…there is a long way to go and a long time in which to do the journey…and don’t panic about how tough it gets…rags to riches is possible…I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a media multi millionaire about which we thought were the best park benches to sleep under, we’d used similar ones when we were both broke and homeless…we also agreed that the best thing about having a rough time early on is that you live the rest of your life without worrying because you KNOW you can manage with nothing…because you know that down is not out be honest for the interview…honest is usually good…be yourself…that’s who an agent is going to represent, that’s who they need to meet…they need to know what you can do on stage and they need to know who you are…that’s all…above all, don’t be in too much of a hurry — eric "the alternative to seeing things in black and white is to see them in full colour"

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This is truly a brilliant news group filled with alot of intelligent and experienced people. I especially found Opus’s comments very eye opening and immediately understood what he/she? was trying to convey. But I am very young (turning 19 soon) and am under different circumstances, my parents and family and others continually put me down, telling me I’m never going to get anywhere acting, and will end up unemployed for the rest of my life. Sometimes I think that life isn’t worth living. But then I think about acting, the way I can make people laugh when I want to, make them feel sad when I want to, and even inspire them when I’m on stage. Recently I got a scholarship to study with a well known theatre, and many told me I wasnt experienced enough or was to young to get into the theatre group but I auditioned anyway, and not only got in but got a scholarship. That did motivate me and keep me focused, but its still hard when your at my age and constantly being judged. I have no job and the only thing keeping me going at the moment is my passion for acting (I feel like I’m about to cry writing this). But its hard to stay motivated when your contantly condemned. But this week I’ve got an interview with an AGENT and am holding onto that for strength. ANY ADVICE on how to handle the interview? (I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes) Thanks, Jimmy

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