Ease and Grace.

As an actor where are you headed?

Lots of destinations are offered to the professional actor – fame, wealth, awards.

To work with ease and grace is what you do when you’re at your best. It’s one of the goals that are practiced on the high road of civilization. 

You know you’re going to do it. You feel it.

The work itself contains its own reward that you working well will encounter.  More valuable than the external validations.

That reward manifests itself in the deepening of your conviction. That’s long-lasting. 

A breakthrough in your work is qualitative. 

Booking work – very important – is quantitative and the recognition you’ll receive from the industry usually doesn’t build your conviction.

Practicing with the idea of ease and grace in mind will give rise to it being your habit. The masters mostly work with ease and grace. It’s the state of those top directors, writers, cinematographers, designers that you’ve worked with.

Meaning - focus on the work and your view of it.

It’s drawing from your pool of power readily, your willing to reveal, your fulfilling your professional obligations, and always you leaning in to truth and beauty.

And doing it with ease.

It’s liking what you’re doing. It’s a lightness of touch. It’s dreaming. It’s beauty.

In response to this entry an actor writes: ‘Reminded me of Muhammad Ali, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”’.

When the human being thinks and acts with ease and grace questions are more easily resolved.