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Week Nineteen: New Knowings

May 9, 2023
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Happy Tuesday! Welcome back to Acting Class Daily. We’re taking our weekly work further with access to my handwritten notes for each audio chapter, the glossary gigantum and … a new nominee for our digital wall.



Have a question about a phrase you’ve heard? Let us know and we’ll translate!


THE TYPE-CASTING MENTALITY; is the death knell of the actor. Seeing you as a cliche. Blind to your abilities and potential. Binding you to chase after other artists’ truths.

The type-casting mentality begins in life when someone says to us, “I wouldn’t believe you in that role.”

When that button gets pushed it creates doubt.

The sort of doubt we allow to attach and internalize.

It creates worry and in-security. It forms a phrase echoing inside us …

“I can do some things, sure … not anything, obviously.”

We do the work to push back.

To know the full breadth of our talent.

To make ‘I can do anything” undeniable.

To change “I can’t play what I don’t know” into “I can do anything … because of what I know!”


We had a tradition of capturing quotes on the Elysium walls. The torch has now been passed to the digital realm. Here’s this week’s nominee … and the .GIF it inspires:


'‘Sir Lancelot! Mr. Epic!”



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