My Acting coach is making us read Uta Hagen's "A Challenge for the Actor". Is this a good read? She also recommends reading the secret. True it helps?
Kara

People swear by The Secret. I don't buy all of it, but some of it is valuable.

I never read A Challenge For The Actor but I read her book Respect For Acting and it was good.

I also thought the secret was pretty good. I also don't buy all of it but it gives you a great way to look at life.

challenge for acting is amazing!!!! respect for acting isn't correct anymore; uta hagen even said that before she passed away!
i havent read the secret but it is supposed to be good.
if you liked respect for acting you will love challenge, but only if you want to work hard to get better at acting.

I agree with Zero- "Respect for acting" is good. Just finished and I'm about to read it again. After that I'll get "Challenge for the actor". That secret stuff ahhh fooey !! lol ! My cuzo in California sent the dvd to me I watch half and gave the dvd to my boy. I with Showbiz on this one. lol ! But hey whatever rocks your boat.

One thing to know about the Secret is that it throws around terms from physics, but when Nightline asked an actual physicist about the use of those terms, he said, basically, yes, those ideas exist in physics, but no they have nothing to with the concepts they're associated with in "The Secret". (When they asked someone associated with the book for a response, he said they'd asked the wrong physicist. )

Otherwise, the general philosophy that "If you can think it, you can do it", etc. is hardly a new idea.

I just got challenge at Barnes and Noble. It looked good. I'm excited.