Through my facebook account, I was virtually introduced to the Artistic Director of the Collective Theatre's Group 2 Theatre Acting Workshops NYC. The classes are very inexpensive (I have to interview, possibly audition, to get into the class), and I liked their tag line: Its about the craft first, then the business.
It's close to my own: It's about the craft AND the business as I've decided to focus on both at the same time (i.e., training, actually working, & focusing on Acting As A Business, all at once), despite my fears and inexperience . . .
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
~ quotes italized, from "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill
. . . and focusing on both seems to have a synergistic effect: both have a acquired a new sense of urgency, of commitment, of focus. Now that I'm really trying to make a living doing this, I feel I know have a responsibility to make it work, a responsibility to myself, to my landlady who I own rent, my health insurance, savings, etc. I have a responsibly everyday to make it work.
When you try to make your living at something like this, you get damn serious damn fast.
