This is an insightful and practical advice guide to the 'do's and don'ts' of professional acting. The book takes the reader through the necessary steps to becoming a professional actor by using personal knowledge balanced with humorous stories. The author's decades of experience as both actor and film director offer readers a first-hand look at the business.

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""Duende is that place in us where the two halves of our life are conjoined. It is the place where we go down into the self and gather up that opposing force to our immediate nature. It involves the undoing of the pretending-everything-is-okay-mechanism in us and it is an overall waking up to the forces of conflict in life and actually mustering a strength to make abiding choices. Many throughout time have likened this awaking process to dreams and forgetfulness and because of that it seeks to reveal itself in shadows and reflections."" These are poems and images that evoke and...