If you boil life (and acting) down to its most basic, what is there? Love. Gratitude. Forgiveness. Letting go. (Sure there’s power and sex and conflict but if you think about every story ever written – isn’t the ultimate message about love or some permutation of it and the higher states of being that allowRead more
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Love. What else is there? Why are we here? Why do we feel compelled to tell stories and reflect back to humanity what it means to be human? Why do we sit in dark theaters with strangers and watch performances that are specific and individual, yet universal at the same time? Well if it’sRead more
I’m a good kisser. Let’s just start with that. Yet I recently made out with this guy who told me that I wasn’t kissing “correctly”. Or maybe he didn’t say it quite like that, but by stopping me in the middle of a kiss and instructing me as to where and how I should proceed,Read more
Construct: an idea containing various conceptual elements; typically one not based on empirical evidence. We have so many constructs built around life. What success looks like. And love. And happiness. And fulfillment in our work. And how show business works. And what’s possible for us. But what if we realized that those very constructsRead more
I’ve lectured about this innumerable times and my new book has a chapter completely devoted to this subject and yet life keeps showing me (and therefore I must keep reminding myself), that when we “wait” we’re really postponing possibility. Possibility of what? Everything. For love. For creativity. For insight. For experience. For failure; which givesRead more
I had a student I was teaching in Australia recently who had a watershed moment in his acting. And it did create a watershed. Being vulnerable might do that to you. He realized that he’s been “acting” – meaning self-generating – rather than simply being – and allowing himself to be affected in theRead more
Nobody talks about this because I think we often feel we’re supposed to have the same feelings for something that we had when we first stumbled upon it. When something’s brand new it’s intoxicating and captivating and joy-filled. It’s almost like innocence because the discovery of things within that thing seem never-ending. A hobby.Read more
We’re so obsessed with the climax in our culture that we forget that it’s all about the foreplay. So we live for the climax – only to discover two things. 1). Sometimes the climax just isn’t that good. Womp. Womp. 2). It’s never the answer. Part of what being here and having this physical experienceRead more
You’re good enough. Just as you are right now at this moment. Here now. You’re good enough as you are without having to change anything. You’re good enough for love. To have an amazing career. To have happiness and full self-expression. To experience the most amazing relationship. You’re good enough in the body thatRead more
At the best of times, the Academy Awards inspire something within us that reminds us career breakthroughs are possible. That something magical can happen to all of us and that the real reason we got into this business was to create something meaningful and powerful that could be shared with the world. I thinkRead more