"Learn your lines, hit your mark, look 'em in the eye and tell the truth." (James Cagney)
Lon Chaney and his make-up box - 1925
Why Act?
I asked an old preacher once how he got his call to the ministry. He said, "Preaching came to me and I ran. But it caught me, so I preach."
I think acting is the same way. I always tell kids when I visit schools that I believe God gives us all a vocation, the thing we are put here on earth to do. The trick is to make your vocation your occupation, if you can.
The only gift I was given is the ability to pretend to be somebody else, and to make people believe me. It's all I can do. So every moment that I get to do it is not only a blessing, it's a gift back.
I read a book in college whose title seems good advice for people who aren't afraid to try. It was called "Do What You Love-The Money Will Follow." Bill
"For dreaming instead of doing is foolishness" Ecclesiastes 5:1
