Jillian Welsh
/“John, I love this, so much.
I remember how hard it was to say, ‘I am an Actor’ at first- even up to a few years ago. Especially while I was waiting tables. I liked remembering this, because this ‘I am a good actor’ step feels hard in the same way. It’s amazing how hard it feels.I understand it on paper, and on paper I agree, but to understand it in my core, believe it with my knowing? It’s a step for sure. At times, like with a “bad” audition, like the one I am still recovering from, this idea of ‘good’ gets beat up inside me, I don’t feel ‘good’ who was I to say ‘good’.
I think maybe it’s about letting go of ‘perfection’ and accepting ‘good’ as your baseline. Knowing that you are ‘good’, you will always continue to pursue ‘great’, you are not immune to failure, you are still learning, but the baseline is ‘good’, and now that is where you are starting from.
Thank you for this.
I just said it, and it felt better than yesterday :)”
(In response to “I’m a good actor.”)
