Fear itself.

I was chatting with an actress I know the other day, and I was giving her a few hints on making her career a little more workable. She's beautiful, smart, and really commercial. She was eager to work on her marketing... but how? She said her problem was that she didn't know how the industry worked.

Offhandedly, another actor walking by said, "Oh, my problem is fear."

Wow - that kind of honesty and self-awareness is rare.

FEAR is the number one reason actors don't succeed in showbiz.

Things that actors fear:
•Screwing up their auditions
•Being too timid
•Being too much
•Forgetting their lyrics
•Not being skinny enough

All of these make perfect sense - we are putting ourselves out there for approval on a daily basis!

But maybe there are other fears we're not quite in touch with:
•Fear of success changing our lives too much
•Fear of learning that we may not be talented
•Fear of getting to the moment when we decide to quit the business
•Fear that when success comes, we can't handle it
•Fear that we're not special. At all


Hey, as actors with deal with characters' emotions all the time. But let's not neglect our own emotions. Get in touch with what's really stopping you from working your hardest. If it's fear that stopping you from going to that open call, or doing that mailing, or signing up for a class with Bob Krakower. GET OVER IT.

If it's anything else... well, I may let it slide. But never out of fear!

"Our greatest fear is not that we are powerless. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." - Marianne Williamson

Guess what actors? You ARE powerful beyond measure.