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Originally posted by basslake06:
"No Acting Please" loved the sensory exercises, truly helped me.

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Originally posted by timmycee:
Just finished "How To Sell Yourself As An Actor" by K Callan. It's a real ball-breakah of a book and I feel exhausted and overwhelmed but that usually means I got something out of it. Kinda like working out.
Mind you, there is an overall sense of encouragement but she mostly gives it to you straight, no chaser.
I don't know about you guys, but every time I read one of these books that touches on all the thing an industrious actor should be doing, I feel like an enormous sack of lazy. Then I start thinking about how I'm knocking down 40+ hours at my restaurant job and trying to make some time for excercise, sleep, some meditation, and just a modicum of social actvity and I become irritated and defiant. "Holy--eff" sez I. "Where am I going to find the time to read a play a week, do mailings, volunteer at a theatre, read the trades, keep up a regular mailing routine, NETWORK, take a class, fill my resume with student films, hang out with "my people", start my own theatre company, NETWORK, practice reading commercial copy into my camcorder, do the Internet thing, write my own material to produce, see a play, see a movie, usher a play, see a movie more than once, do more mailings, NETWORK, put a reel together, take singing lessons, take more singing lessons, read books on the industry, read biographies of successful actors, start my own fan club, creat my own buzz, NETORK, NETWORK, NETWORK...?"
May I take a nap now?
Of course, I jest a bit. I realize that no one can do all of these things at once but it just seems that in the short space of a book I have to match that timetable in reality. It usually takes a week or so after reading such a book for the information to stretch itself out and become truly useful.

Am I alone in this?

timmycee

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Originally posted by ModelMoMMie:
can anyone recommend any acting books for my child? she is 8 and is a natural!