How Do You Get Into the Mood to Act When You Just Don't Feel Like Acting?
"I have days when I don't want to do the show, when I'm depressed, when I'm physically sick, and I just put it into the character." More »

What Can a Manager Do for You in New York?
In New York, talent can freelance with multiple agents, theoretically allowing for more casting opportunities. The manager's role in New York is very diverse. More »

Maintaining a Relationship with Your Agent
The relationship between client and agent is delicate. The client and agent can go through periods when there simply is no "relationship." But there is hope. More »

How Do You Cast Theater for Kids?
Are you willing to be confidently idiotic in front of all of us? Because that's what we do. People who are willing to look dumb and be silly tend to be the same people who know how to handle kids. More »

What to Know Before Moving to L.A.
What do you wish you had known when you moved to L.A.? More »

What Do Working Actors Bring to Class That Helps the Other Students?
"I believe to have working actors in a class is a necessity, not a luxury. It is a direct reflection of the work process of that class." More »

Get Nervous? Learn to Take Control
Whether you get slight anxiety, or the deer-in-headlights, I'm-completely-paralyzed kind of fear, nerves of any sort can stifle your relaxation—which is essential for creativity and spontaneity. More »

How Did You Choose Your Acting Teacher?
"The teachers I learn the most from are the ones who challenge me and aren’t afraid to criticize my work, even when I think I’ve mastered it." More »

How to Memorize: Don't Get Locked
Most actors rush to have their lines down cold. It's the first thing they do. If you're one of these 'get these suckers down first' actors, you may be doing more harm than good. More »

Learning from Other Actors?
What have you learned by looking at other actors' careers and what could other actors learn from your career? More »

Qualities for Casting Comedies
"I love when an actor focuses on the action and truth of the scene instead of trying to be funny." --Daniel Talbott, New York; founding artistic director, Rising Phoenix Rep More »

What's Needed for Success?
Actors almost always develop their acting technique while often neglecting their business technique: audition personality, updated résumé and pictures, post cards, and punctuality. More »

Whom to Recommend Plastic Surgery For?
"I have no problem with plastic surgery—you can have remarkable results. But if you are under 24, turn the page. I think you are too young." -- Lynda Bensky More »

Actors Uploading Audition Videos to Websites?
What do you think of actors uploading their auditions to video websites and being submitted by their agents or managers? More »

Why Are Voiceover Classes Necessary?
"Many people who are actors ask me, "Why does an actor need to take voiceover classes to work in voiceover?" Acting skills certainly give a person an ability to deliver lines, so what's the difference?" - Dan Balestrero More »

Top Tips for Acing a Dance Sequence?
"One of the things all dancers should do is be prepared as to what it is they're auditioning for. For instance, if they're auditioning for "Guys and Dolls," they have to understand that this is a period piece." - Sergio Trujillo More »

How Do You Behave On a Project?
"I've been working since I was 4, and my mom always told me, "Listen to everybody and do what you're told and have a great personality. Don't just be one of those vegetables." -- Sarah Hyland More »

Prefer Actors Working Inside Out Or Outside In?
"Good work is good work, no matter how you get there. However, it's thrilling to witness character-building based on externals." -- Michele Mulroney & Kieran Mulroney More »

Should Clients Produce Their Own Work?
"In Hollywood, a talent can be waiting forever to get a callback. Everyone and anyone, including the gas station attendant, is in the biz. The competition is fierce." -- Daniel 'Big D' Mahan More »

When To Brand Yourself?
"I think that branding yourself is a great idea if you are very specific to begin with. Many actors are more versatile, so branding can pigeonhole them." -- Josselyne Herman-Saccio More »

Using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube?
" We're entering a new era where everyone is using MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter, and it would be silly not to take advantage of that." -- Sean Marks, Barbara McNamara Casting More »

When Does An Actor Need a Financial Planner?
"Immediately! Anyone who is devoting his or her life to a career like acting, in which 2.5 percent of those trained in it make their living at it, needs financial planning." -- Erin Burns More »

Actor Training Abroad?
"I would say the gung-ho attitude toward the work would be the most obvious difference between training abroad and training actors here in the U.S." -- Ron Burrus More »

Best Acting Advice?
"We have to allow ourselves to let go and be vulnerable and allow people to question our sanity. Then the audience will forget they're watching a performance and feel guilty about intruding in our personal lives." More »

Interviewing An Actor?
"Let the agent conduct the interview. Some actors come in, sit down, and proceed to do a monologue about themselves. That doesn't usually go over well with me." --Renee Glicker More »