I think a lot about why. Specifically, why we do what we do: it’s something that I ask any potential client, and it’s something I ask myself. Why have I worked as a talent manager for 25 years? Because I have a passion for making people feel something they’ve never…
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The 90th Academy Awards: What This Year’s Oscars Says About Where We Are And Where We’re Headed
I live and work in an industry built around inspiration. Every artistic work worth its salt started with someone being moved to the point that they had to create something from it. So it goes, when something truly moves me, I feel the need to write about it. And there’s…
How Raising Livestock and Chopping Wood As a Teenager Prepared Me For a Career In Hollywood
A little over a year ago, The New York Times published a profile of the Midland School, a small private school in Los Olivos, California. Midland is a fairly ordinary school in that it boasts an excellent college prep curriculum, and prides itself on sending students to Harvard, Stanford, and…
How to Handle the Ups and Downs of an Entertainment Industry Career
Whether you’ve spent a day or a decade in Hollywood, you know life in La La Land is a series of ups and downs. The peaks and valleys of the entertainment industry are as inevitable as the geography upon which this city was raised. My life and career have been…
How To Change Your Luck In Hollywood
“Luck” Photo by Erwin More of More Medavoy When I hear people talk about actors, I often hear “luck” referenced as a reason for their success. “Sure,” I say. But then, I define luck as being prepared when opportunity arrives. You may not create it exactly, but you sure as…
5 Things Every Actor Can Learn From The Beatles
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha The Beatles Knew What It Took to Be an Actor There’s no shortage of takes on The Beatles and what they meant to music, culture, and even history at large. So forgive…
GIVE Theory: Success is Measured by What You Do for Others
“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill” I love this quote because it so adeptly pinpoints why I am so passionate about giving. Wealth, notoriety, status, and power are only external, socially constructed measures of success. To me,…
Hollywood vs Hollywouldn’t: 12 Tips to Help Actors Navigate the Hollywood Landscape
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you have always got.” – Henry Ford I love actors. Compared to most people, actors are often more personable – they feel more free to access their feelings and emotions. They tend to be more in touch…
These 10 Websites Have Given to Me and Inspired Me to Give Back
“You can have everything in life if you want if you will just help other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar For me, the internet is a gift. One of the most impactful, viral and influential services is to read articles and tell people what you like. Having…