I'm very lucky to have many powerful women in my life: from childhood, high school, college, my early days in New York and several rockin' actresses and female directors. My girls live all over the world, back home and right here in NY. I love it!
In this biz, YOU MUST be sure you have a strong inner circle of friends - who lift you up when you are down and tell you how terrific they think you are - especially when they know you need to hear it - and that you can happily do the same for them. Ones who cheer you on when something good happens, dont get jealous, celebrate your victories with you as though it were their own. It is! You hear a lot of critique from others about yourself in this line of work constantly, from your talent to your physicality and you really have to be able to detach from it and not invest your entire reason for existence on what some agent or casting director said (or didnt say) about you. If there is one really important thing I've learned, beauty AND talent are all in the eye of the beholder......
Which brings me to another juicy quote: "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ---Mark Twain
That is why I love my friends C & O - I saw them both today, O is helping me work my monologues, and with C - we just have fun plotting our careers together, keeping each other lifted up, and basically gabbin.' ;) They make me feel like I am great!
Amen to that! Gotta' keep those wonderful, supportive people close and exorcise those that celebrate your doubts & insecurities... I too, am grateful for all of those loving, supportive, talented, creative friends in my life that inspire me and push me onward & upward . . . :)
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