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5 Tips For Mind Blowing Confidence for Actors

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1. Who Are You Surrounding Yourself With?
If you are feeling low on confidence and self-esteem, you need to be brutally honest with yourself about who you are surrounding yourself with and what effect they are having on you.

Ask yourself the following questions:

  • Who are the main 5 people who surround me?
  • How do I feel when I’m around them? (Do this for each person individually)
  • What do they say/do that impacts me in a positive way?
  • What do they say/do that impacts me in a negative way?

2. Keep Learning and Developing You Skills.
To be confident in your abilities as an actor, there’s no doubt that you need to be consistently working on improving and developing your skills.

3. There Is No Such Thing As Too Much Preparation.
If you have a role or an audition coming up, prepare the hell out of it.

4. Look after your body.
Exercise, eat clean and pay attention to what your body needs. This will drastically improve your confidence!

5. Dedicate Time To The Things That Make You Feel Alive!
If you are a creative person, which you clearly are or you wouldn’t be here, you need to be creating.

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Viggo Mortensen on How He Became an Actor

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Viggo Mortensen

It didn’t occur to me to try acting it until I was, for an actor, relatively pretty old — 22 or 23. I was working selling tickets and popcorn in a revival movie theater and I was seeing movies from the ’30s to the ’80s and taking note of certain performances. I started to wonder, What was their trick?How do they affect me so strongly, transport me to places far from the movie house? I wanted to try it.

The first teacher I had was a man named Warren Robertson in New York City. He ran scene-study and exercise classes. I didn’t really know anything; I hadn’t had any kind of acting training so I didn’t even know what I was doing. I actually looked in the yellow pages and thought I would try out for a play. I found a listing that said Actors Repertory Theater — yeah, okay they must do lots of plays with actors! So I called them and I said “I want to try out. What’s the story you’re doing, should I prepare?”  They said, “Just come in Monday at 8 o’clock and bring two pieces.” I go, “Two pieces of what?” It’s a miracle they even let me come in. I cobbled together dialogue of a character from a story by Karen Blixen, the Danish writer Meryl Streep played in Out of Africa. And also, for some reason I prepared the lyrics to an Irish song. I performed those two texts and they said, “We will get back to you.” Then, a couple of days later they called and said, “Okay, you are accepted.” It turned out to be an audition for an acting school, not a play. So that’s how I got started.

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Sparkplug: Rent instruments, gear, and space to and from your fellow artists

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Sparkplug

 

Sparkplug (www.sparkplug.it) is an online marketplace where musicians and local businesses offer their instruments, equipment, and space (like rehearsal rooms or studios) for rent.

It offers the opportunity for artists to make money renting out their instruments, gear, and space, and save money by renting from local musicians and small businesses.

On the Quest to Become a Better Musician

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Here are some of the most important things to practice:

Your Sense of Time

How deeply and accurately you feel this underlying heartbeat determines how strongly everyone else will respond to the music.

Your Sense of Tonality

I cannot tell you how many times I have been in a rehearsal with someone who does not have a clue what key they are in. It’s critical that you know this, because everything you play comes from a key whether you know it or not – and if you don’t know, you may find yourself being that guy in the band who seems to have five heads.

Your Sense of Harmony

Once you know the tonality you are in, you can use the pitches and interval relationships inside it to create harmony. Harmony is created anytime you make the listener hear two or more pitches at the same time.

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