What All Successful Actors Have In Common - It’s Not Talent
What All Successful Actors Have In Common and It’s Not Talent Do you know what all professional, successful actors have in common? If it is not talent, then, what is it? All Successful Actors Approach the Business as a Business! • They all market themselves. • They all promote themselves. • They all network. I equate most talented actors to the great master painters of years gone by. Imagine these painters with millions of dollars worth of artwork. They were right-brained people. They were creating all of this wonderful art, but they didn’t know business. They didn’t know how to market or promote. They starved to death. They died penniless. They created great art, but what good did it do them, because no one ever saw the art. Now someone who understands business comes along and discovers the artwork. The businessperson knows how to promote it and market it and build that buzz that is necessary, how to create a market, a need, a desire for this product. Then that businessperson becomes extremely wealthy. The artist’s name comes back to life, but I don’t know that it does the artist a lot of good, because the artist is still dead. It’s Show BUSINESS Not Show Art Approach it as a hobby, and you can expect hobby-type results. Approach it as a serious business, and you can expect seriously good results!
Do You Know Who Hires Actors?
Do you know who hires actors? Producers hire actors. Producers hire and fire everybody. So, whom do you want to meet? Producers! Of course! Do you know what your job is? As an actor, your job is to bring life to the producer’s vision. You must understand that this is your job, so. . .
Think Like a Producer - And Get the Acting Job
The Producer’s Role - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. If you are a producer, what is your passion? Think as a producer thinks. What is your passion? You and I are producers, what is our passion? Is our passion the actors? No, our passion is our project! A producer has to wear so many hats. They have to get funding, cast actors, and work out budgets, food, location, and crew, EVERTHING. Being a producer is a huge job, and they need ALL the support they can get. When working on a project, they are going at it 24/7, making sure all is running smoothly, on time, on budget and so much more. The producer’s project, that dream, that thing that she/he has been carrying for the last four, five, six years or longer – that’s the producer’s passion -- to bring that project alive on the screen, to touch people, and be living their art, and always keeping in mind that it must be profitable financially, so that they can continue to create. So, always understand, as producers, our project is our passion! If I am the actor and you are the producer, I can either make that passion and project come alive, or I am in your way. “And I want to know, Miss Producer or Mr. Producer, what can I do? How can I be of assistance to you? How can I make your project come alive? I’m here for you, and I really believe in what you’re doing. Just tell me. In front of the camera, I’m very good. Behind the camera - if you need someone to run for coffee and donuts - I’m there for you. If I can be, in some small way, a part of the success of a (fill in name of producer) project, that would be just extraordinary.” Do you think, as a producer, you might hire me? What is the most dangerous thing a producer does? What do you think? Every time a producer puts an actor in front of the camera, that producer is risking everything. Not only is that day in jeopardy, the entire project is in jeopardy, and that producer’s entire professional future career and life, in this industry, is on the line. If you and I are producers, are we going to just go through pictures that come in the mail and say, “Oh, he looks good. Let’s hire him.” No, we can’t afford to do that! It’s way too dangerous! We go with people we know and trust. We go with people we’ve used before, whom we know will not go out partying every night and not know their lines the next day. We want professionals, with great attitudes, upon whom we can rely. We’re going to go with nepotism, friends and relatives. We’re going to call other industry people we know and trust implicitly and ask them for suggestions. Sure, as conscious producers, we want to make a difference. But, we’ll never have the opportunity if we hire one ‘wrong’ actor and lose our career! We have to play it safe.
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Do You Know Who Hires Actors?
26 May 2009
Do you know who hires actors? Producers hire actors. Producers hire and fire everybody. So, whom do you want to meet? Producers! Of course! Do you know what your job is? As an actor, your job is to bring life to the producer’s vision. You must understand that this is your job, so. . . Go [...]
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The World’s Greatest Business - You Are Part of It
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And You Are A Part of It You are a part of (or have a burning desire to be a part of) THE best industry on this planet. That’s one reason you are reading this. You may not even be in this industry and simply are curious. Or, maybe you were distracted, and picked up this [...]
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Think Like a Producer - Get the Acting Job
26 May 2009
The Producer’s Role - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. If you are a producer, what is your passion? Think as a producer thinks. What is your passion? You and I are producers, what is our passion? Is our passion the actors? No, our passion is our project! A producer has to wear so many [...]
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