You’re in this crazy business because nothing else would satisfy you creatively, right? Well, our Backstage Experts feel the same way. As industry professionals spanning various areas of the business, our Backstage Experts are casting directors, acting teachers, coaches, and beyond, and they’re motivated day in and day out by things they see in their work.
We knew they’d have great answers to the following question:
What inspires you?
Here are answers from 19 industry professionals!
(And if you missed the last installment of this column, check out “8 Overdone Audition Monologues” and see how to get your acting questions answered at the bottom of this article!)
Paul Barry, L.A.-based acting teacher and founder of Acting 4 Camera I’ve always thought that if you aren’t growing as a person by becoming a better actor and growing as an actor by becoming a better person then there’s something missing. They feed one another. They must feed one another.
Every single thing inspires me. When I’m struggling to maintain my patience with a rude operator on the phone or gazing with wonder into my newborn nephew’s eyes, it may not inspire me in the
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