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Articles and resources on actors and acting

Articles on the challenges actors face and suggestions and strategies for improving acting strength and performance.

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Jessica Chastain and Octavia SpencerActing Resources

Actors and Addiction

Books for actors

First Steps on How to Get Started in the Television, Film and Commercial Business

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  • Acting and Body Image: Portia de Rossi, Toni Collette
  • Acting and image – ethnicity and casting
  • Acting and image – The dark side of sexy photos
  • Acting passion – being proactive
  • Acting passion – What is your calling?
  • Acting schools – building you up, or tearing you down?
  • Actor’s Privacy and The Dark Side of Fame
  • Actors & Addiction
  • Actors and charisma
  • Actors and creative polymathy: Mayim Bialik, James Franco and others
  • Actors and Drugs and Addiction
  • Actors and Insecurity
  • Actors and perfectionism
  • Actors and privacy – Debi Mazar on publicity
  • Actors and self esteem
  • Actors and therapy
  • Actors coping with rejection
  • Actors on building identity
  • Agnes Bruckner on the best acting advice
  • Amanda Seyfried on anxiety
  • Amanda Seyfried on fame, anxiety and being self-critical
  • Amber Riley on rejection: “How can I better myself?”
  • Amber Tamblyn: artists should be inspired on multiple levels
  • Amy Adams on being authentic but safe
  • Amy Lyndon on actor training and achievement
  • Androgyny and acting
  • Annette Bening on unconscious versus conscious
  • Anxiety and acting – dealing with an ‘enemy of art’
  • Are performers raging narcissists?
  • Artistic confidence – Rex Lee likes being strange
  • Austin Highsmith: wanting to act more than anything
  • Being bullied and an actor
  • Being Shy or Introverted and an Actor
  • Bonnie Gillespie on fame and redefining success
  • Brandon Routh on Biohacking and Bulletproof
  • Break the rules – Jodie Foster on good rules and not so good
  • Brooke Shields and Kate Winslet on fame
  • Brooke Smith on not being like everybody else
  • Bryce Dallas Howard on learning more fearlessness from her character
  • Celebrity and fame and personal growth
  • Claire Danes on taking time to discover herself
  • Compromising yourself – Ellen Page: I’d rather be shot in the foot
  • Courteney Cox on being sensitive
  • Creating a role – Taking your character home
  • Creative Inspiration: Books with Actor Quotes
  • Creative passion and gratitude
  • Cynthia Bain on teaching young actors
  • Deal With Self-Doubt
  • Deal with stage fright and anxiety to be a more powerful actor
  • Dealing with fame – or not
  • Dealing with fame and keeping your ego in check
  • Dee Wallace on acting passion and limiting beliefs
  • Developing confidence as an actor
  • Developing intuition to enhance acting performance
  • Drugs and actors and addiction
  • Edie Falco on her anxiety
  • Elisabeth Shue on pursuing excellence
  • Ellen Muth on living in the real world
  • Ellen Pompeo: strength from a challenging early life
  • Embracing fear and discomfort as an actor
  • Emily Blunt on fate and stammering and acting
  • Emily Blunt on showing her real side and being balanced
  • Emma Watson on how college is “empowering and liberating”
  • Ethan Hawke on using multiple talents and interests
  • Ethnic stereotypes and identity
  • Felicity Huffman on becoming more of herself with age
  • Gabrielle Anwar on isolation and pursuing interests other than acting
  • Grace Zabriskie on “obsessional mode”
  • Heath Ledger on his nervous energy
  • Helen Mirren: “I’m a would-be rebel.”
  • Highly Sensitive and an Actor
  • Highly sensitive and in the spotlight
  • Holly Hunter on respecting the creative environment
  • Hollywood and drugs and narcissism
  • Hollywood competition – Amanda Peet: “There’s room for everybody”
  • Hoon Lee: a black sheep because he was artistic
  • Ian McKellen on telling the truth so you don’t sell your soul
  • Insecurity and darkness and comedy
  • Intense but Relaxed – Acting with Confidence
  • Intuition – Laura Linney on the more mystical part of acting
  • It’s About More Than Performing – Life Off The Set or Stage
  • Jackie Earle Haley & Kate Winslet: Self-esteem and identity and being an actor
  • Jaime Pressly on fame
  • James Franco on being a loner
  • Jeffrey Tambor on using fear
  • Jenna Gavigan on not thinking too much
  • Jennifer Beals on her sensitivity
  • Jessica Chastain: “I’m not an actor to be a personality.”
  • Joan Chen on the emotional need to retreat
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt on feeding the soul & the poison of fame
  • Judith Orloff, MD on helping actors deal with anxiety
  • Julie Adams: “I knew I would be happier striving toward my dream.”
  • Julie Christie on using pain as an artist
  • Jurnee Smollett on her warrior spirit
  • Keeping out of your head to act
  • Kerry Washington on the power of silence
  • Kristen Johnston on overcoming her love affair with chemicals
  • Kristin Davis: “Why risk self-destructive behavior?”
  • Kyra Sedgwick, Anjelica Huston on motherhood
  • Lea Michele, Julie Benz, Jim Parsons on auditioning
  • Leslie Mann, audition anxiety and rude people
  • Limiting yourself with drugs
  • Liv Tyler on Feeling Real
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal on working with the dark and light
  • Making people more aware of their inner world
  • Melanie Lynskey: “Go to a dark, honest part of yourself.”
  • Melora Hardin on multiple creative projects
  • Melora Hardin on social reactions and confidence
  • Michael O’Keefe, Mindfulness and Acting
  • Michelle Williams on Interpreting Marilyn Monroe
  • Monica Raymund: being relaxed about the audition got her the role
  • Multiple talents – Masi Oka and Dolph Lundgren
  • Naomi Watts on the struggle for integrity
  • Naomie Harris: “As an actress you can feel very alienated.”
  • Nerves and attitude impact your acting
  • Nicole Kidman on fame, and actors as highly sensitive people
  • Overcoming Performance Anxiety
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman: “It’s an uncomfortable medium for an actor.”
  • Pierce Brosnan on being self-critical
  • Playacting: childlike creativity
  • Portraying people with depth and complexity
  • Rachel Weisz: “The actor’s job is to get into people’s skin.”
  • Rashida Jones on the creative value of her mixed ethnicity
  • Rebecca Brooksher on her experience at Juilliard
  • Rejection – does it defeat you or fuel you?
  • Relationships and actors
  • Roles with creative meaning can be emotionally crucial
  • Romola Garai on potential distortions of an acting career
  • Rose Byrne on fear and focus
  • Samuel L. Jackson on pursuing excellence
  • Sarah Polley on fame and the big movie role
  • Scarlett Johansson: “I’m comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
  • Secrets of the Actor – a podcast
  • Shia LaBeouf on fame and meaning and insecurity
  • Shia LaBeouf: “You have to be brokenhearted.”
  • Staying healthy in a business with unhealthy pressures
  • Summer Bishil on the emotional workout of “Towelhead”
  • Terrence Howard: “to discover more truths”
  • Toni Collette on finding meaning in acting
  • Using your high sensitivity personality
  • Vanessa Hudgens on striving to be strong and aware
  • Vera Farmiga: “What interests me, are the contradictions..”
  • Vera Farmiga: It’s a profession so much to do with ego
  • Winona Ryder on staying sane with so much attention and work
  • Zooey Deschanel and Evangeline Lilly on beauty

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