As an actor, you’re probably brilliant at making up stories. In fact, you may be so good at it that it’s actually killing your career.
“But aren’t we supposed to use our imagination and bring stories to life?”
Yes. Of course you are…on stage or in front of a camera, not in your life.
Here’s a great example: You’re in the room and you’ve just given what you thought was a great audition. You’re feeling really good about it and then you get the dreaded, “Thank you” from behind the table. All of a sudden, the great work you just did doesn’t mean a thing to you anymore because every actor knows that those two words really mean, “No thank you, you’re terrible, that sucked, you’re untalented.”
Once you hear “thank you” in the audition room, your brain starts to flood with times you’ve heard it before and didn’t get the part, further proving that your “ ‘thank you’ really means ‘no thank you, you suck’ ” theory is actually true.
But the fact is that in any other situation when someone says “thank you,” you usually say, “you’re welcome” and accept their
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