How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:36amI'm thinking of taking the next five-ten years off in terms of acting. No auditions, no classes, no nothing. I'd study acting in my own private way and then maybe get out there and audition. I've always felt extremely uncomfortable onstage (Although I love being in a character) and must find a way to fix that.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#2re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 3:42amThat's nice.
Fiyero13
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/07
#2re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:43pmyou better hope u don't age too much during those years
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#3re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:45pmI predicted who made this thread before I opened it. And what a surprise, I was right!
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#4re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:48pmIf you're willing to take five to ten years off from acting, you probably don't have a strong enough need to do it that would justify pursuing such an uncertain career anyway.
#5re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:49pm
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#6re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:50pm
The only way you'll fix the way you feel on stage is if you continue to be a part of the theatre, and learn from consecutive experiences. Observation in the rehearsal room, et cetera, is a big thing.
If you really wished to improve, you wouldn't stop, you'd continue.
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#7re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:55pm
If you're not comfortable on stage then you probably shouldn't be there.
And taking five years off isn't going to solve the issue.
P.S. I'm surprised you don't do well on stage, you have the disposition of an actor (aka: an obvious need for constant attention).
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#8re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:58pmI know I haven't said this yet, but I 100 percent agree with BroadwayGirl. 5-10 YEARS? Maybe 5-10 minutes. Maybe weeks. Maybe months. That is a long time to deprive yourself of something you should be passionate about (if you want to pursue it..which I'm assuming you're not..)
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#9re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:05amSusan Lucci has made a career of being without acting.
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#10re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:09am
Is Cruel ANYTHING like Susan Lucci?!
(No offense dude)
#11re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:14am
Cruel- You are really odd.
Especially cause you are going to make a horror movie when you are supposed to play a husband and wife but now you announce that you are done acting? What's up with that?
#12re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:22am
Hmm, I think that a problem with being on stage would be best solved . . . on stage.
But whatever dude.
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#13re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:34am
To pursue this career you have to have a HUGE passion for it, IMHO. And if you're willing to give it up for 10 years, you obviously don't have that passion.
I get restless if I'm not in a show for a month.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#14re: How Long Is Too Long To Be Without Acting?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:48amKill yourself.
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