Actors, you have to hold onto your artistry

The actor’s foundation is ease, pleasure, play - That will give you a very long career.

Because you won’t take it seriously, and yet you’ll take it very seriously. The very serious part is the practice. The thing you don’t take seriously is your relationship to it, in the sense of, you want to build your relationship to it as something that is easeful, pleasurable, playful. So, we’re fostering an internal environment that has the capacity for vast playfulness, pleasure, ease, comfort, enjoyment and that is the fundamental foundation of the artist.

I was watching James Baldwin and Maya Angelou speaking, and they said, for an artist, it’s never about success.It’s about the art for the art’s sake and that’s an entirely different lens through which to live out your relationship with your art form.

And it’s a very different energy field, also, to live in. One is pursuing, trying to get somewhere, goal-oriented, transactional, conditional.

You have an idea of what success is. That’s a corporate mindset for a creative art form.

You can have that in the corporate world, but not as an artist.

So sometimes we have to challenge our relationship with it that might become quite conditional.

Whereas it's actually a very difficult art form to be in unless you're unconditional with it. And the thing that you're unconditional with is the creative source.

so it's building an unconditional relationship with the cosmos, with this unconscious and conscious. And when you tap into that, then everything is creative.

And that allows you to be alive to your life, and not feel like, I'm only going to come alive when this happens to me.

Because I cannot tell you the amount of actors I've worked with who've become really successful, and all of a sudden, every demon they ever knew is now on their shoulders and it's highly uncomfortable.

Because we're not designed for The industry's idea of success.

You have to hold on to your artistry, and it becomes even more important if you go into bigger roles on bigger sets, you really have to stay more humble, more grounded, more present. It's actually there where it really, really counts, actually.

But that's after decades of honing your crafts. That's after years of being with what you're up to.

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