{"id":4131,"date":"2018-08-17T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.averral.com\/blog\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2018-08-17T03:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T03:07:16","slug":"to-give-up-acting-is-to-give-up-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.averral.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/to-give-up-acting-is-to-give-up-life\/","title":{"rendered":"To give up acting is to give up life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Some people are born fighters, or entrepreneurs, or dancers, or musicians. In ten years of teaching and directing actors, I have seen maybe 3 or 4 truly gifted actors, who simply can\u2019t do anything else in life. Like me. We do it because we HAVE to. We have no choice. To give up acting would be to give up life.<\/span>”<\/p>\n

Jerome Pride<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Actor at Actors and Actresses (1991-present)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I find this statement fundamentally true to who I am. As much as I had denied who I am – which is – an actress – it continues to haunt me in all my dreams and visions. In fact, I am truly alive when I am on stage. I feel safe and secure in the surrounds of a theater. I can literally live in the confines of a theater, and breathe, eat and sleep in it.<\/div>\n
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In fact, I have a crazy idea to turn my room into a black box. Which is to buy full length black velvet curtains on all four walls and enclose the room into an amphitheater. I would be sleeping, living and breathing in my theater room, and be truly where I want to be.<\/div>\n
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Sometimes when I dance, I close my eyes and imagine the new reality that unfolds – like the ballroom dance scene from Anastasia. That I am a long lost princess, searching for her place in this world. Reality, as we know it, is dull and a routine. It is in our minds, where our deepest fantasies reside, that we can summon our imagination to bring forth these new realities.<\/p>\n

I love living many lives, and being many different personas. That’s why I write stories. I write novels. I write to express my fantastical creations. But actually, I truly want to act on stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An actor is a dancer and vocalist in one. It is the ultimate artistry of using the human body as an instrument. That’s why I continue to work on my craft, to dream about my highest self, my potential… of who I can be.<\/div>\n

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As I work towards unleashing who I can be, I am happy and content to have chosen this life and calling.<\/div>\n
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“Some people are born fighters, or entrepreneurs, or dancers, or musicians. In ten years of teaching and directing actors, I have seen maybe 3 or 4 truly gifted actors, who simply can\u2019t do anything else in life. Like me. We do it because we HAVE to. We have no choice. To give up acting would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[451],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n