Determination

Bette Davis

Bette Davis was one of the most popular and prolific actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. If anyone ever tells you you’ve got her eyes, that’s a huge compliment! Getting her start on Broadway when she was 22, she moved to Hollywood where she did films until she was in her mid 70’s. She was the first person to be nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning two of them. She was known for playing sardonic, intelligent, passionate women and was a bit of a spitfire herself. Do you know she even auditioned to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind?

Don’t Want to Look Like an Amateur?

Do you hold yourself back with your acting career because you’re afraid of being wrong or that you’ll make yourself look like an amateur?

That’s a common condition for a lot of actors, in my experience. Even ones who are “established”. But why do we do that? Hold back and don’t try to get an agent or better agent? Stay stuck in our 9 to 5 getting more hopeless by the day? Go weeks or even months without letting those wild horses of our acting drive out to tear up the fields?

Creating Traction As An Actor!

How does an ice climber feel a the bottom of a frozen waterfall? Daunted, perhaps? Maybe, but once they clamp on those crampons, they know they’re going to have added traction to get to the top. Steel-toothed feet, how could that not give you confidence? 

Well, if you’re feeling like where you want to go with your acting is a huge, slippery, wall of ice and you just can’t seem to figure out how to climb it—we just need to get you some steel-teeth for your feet.

But how? 

First of all take heart, every actor feels daunted at times. Even famous actors. The best thing to do is start where you are. And then do what you love. Even if it’s for a smidge of time during your work-packed day.