This is a site dedicated to the success of actors, so many ways of achieving success! I would like for you to take a look at this industry they way I look at it. I look at it as a gigantic maze, with thousands of square miles, and hundreds and hundreds of entrances. When you come into that maze, you know that somewhere on the other side is success — the success you want, or the success you say you want. Generally those two things are different, and hopefully today you will see and know the difference. So, you go into that maze, and there are other people in there who have been there for years and years and years who will say, “Hey, you’rean actor? Me, too. Wow! I’ve been in this maze for fourteen years. There’s the way you go, right there. There’s the passageway. Hey, you want to help me out here, help me out a little bit? Yeah, because I just showed you a passageway, right?” Now, how long has that person been in the maze and not been able to find success, but is showing you the way out, when he is still in the maze? That’s why you keep running into dead ends over and over again.
One of the things that you notice in this maze is that there are absolutely brilliantly talented actors, writers and potential Academy Award® winning type people, who have been in that maze for ten, fifteen, twenty years. Another thing you’ll notice is that there are exit signs. And, too frequently, you will see those wonderful, magnificent people, who are brilliantly talented, with their heads hung low heading for the exit. They are giving up their dream, their passion, and what their lives could have been. Now, they are going to settle for what their friends settled for twenty years ago, except they’ve lost twenty years of their lives, and for the rest of their lives they’ll know they were a failure. I doubt that they would be able to turn on the television very often and see people who are not particularly talented doing larger roles. I doubt that they would be able to go to motion pictures theatres anymore and see actors who are less talented than they, because they couldn’t make it. Today, my friend, we are going to raise you above that maze. There’s no top on it, and when you are above it, you can clearly see the dozens of passageways that lead to success. And when you see it, you’ll say, “Oh, it’s so simple.” Sure it’s simple, once you have the directions.
Do you play chess? Is that a yes? Okay, if you and I were to play chess, who do you think would win, you or me? Well, if you said you would win, -if you do indeed play chess- you my friend, would be correct. You would definitely win if we played chess. WHY? Because I do not know how to play. ☺ I don’t know the rules of the game. I can’t even be in the game with you. And, I can’t blame you for why you’re in the game and I’m not. I can talk about catch 22’s and I can come up with all sorts of excuses and all sorts of lies, but I cannot be in the game with you. In this scenario I represent 99.99% of the people who call themselves actors who have absolutely no idea how the film and television industry works. They wonder why they can’t succeed. They wonder why they’re not even in the game. And some of them have super talent. This is NOT a talent driven industry. The fact that you have talent is great. On the list of what we’re looking for, talent is not even close to the top of the list. If you’ve got talent, fantastic! But, your talent’s not going to make you. Marketing, promotion and networking is going to make it happen for you. This is show business, it is not show art. Today you are going to learn how the industry really operates as it is the world’s greatest business.
