What Kind of Actor Do You Want To Be? | Charlie Sandlan 917-789-1599

Professional Actor Training Maggie Flanigan Studio 917-789-1599 www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/ Charlie Sandlan is the Executive Director and Head of Acting at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. In this video, Charlie discusses the most important question that every actor needs to ask themselves. The state of acting in this country is not the most inspiring. Back in the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, actors flocked to New York City to study with some of the master teachers of the twentieth century. Sandy Meisner, Stella Adler, Elia Kazan, Bobby Lewis, Michael Chekhov, they trained some of the greatest actors of a generation. It’s not the case anymore. We live in a pop culture that feeds the need for fame, celebrity, and attention. To most of this younger generation, that is what is important. Acting has become an outlet to feed this need for attention and the superficiality of our ego. I say to all my students when they are here, ”There is an important question that you have to ask yourself if you want to be an actor. What is the contribution that you want to make to the art form?” If you don’t want to ache in your bones to create human behavior, if the thought of never acting again would crush your soul, then you need to find something that feeds you, that inspires you, that is going to make you want to bust your a**. I have a lot of students that when they start here, after a few weeks, a couple of months, when they realize how hard you have to work to be a first rate actor, the amount of dedication that you have to have to your voice and to your physical instrument, the need that you have to have to educate yourself about the plays, the playwrights, the films, the directors, that are part of the fabric of this art form, many quit. I that. I encourage people to quit when they come to my studio. I want them to be happy. I want you to be happy. I want you to be doing something with your life that inspires you. If you truly want to be an actor, then you have to have a vision of the type of artist that you want to be. All great artists do. Someone like Bruce Springsteen or Marina Abramović, Toni Morrison, Daniel Day-Lewis, they all create because they have no choice. It is as important to hem as the air they breathe. You need to find something of yourself that feeds you in the same way. If that is being an actor, then you need to train relentlessly. You need to take yourself seriously. For more information about the professional training program for serious actors at the Maggie Flanigan Studio, call 917-789-1599 http://flic.kr/p/RWEnTY