Reel Actors, Real Answers
by David Thompson
Welcome to Reel Actors Real Answers! The podcast where actors, directors, producers, and script writers offer their experiences, stories and expertise. Looking to learn more about the craft of acting and the performing arts? You've come to the right podcast. Looking for a professional actor & acting coach with 30 years of experience? I invite you to contact me. www.davidthompsoncoaching.co
Episodes
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Releasing Your Past & Making Room for Your Future
Have you ever had a day where you were living in your past? That is a very interesting thing to think about. Because many times your past interrupts your present which causes your future to be delayed. How do you release your past? So you can have a better present? Here are some tips.
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The Only Way to Be a Successful Actor
Drain yourself. This is the only way to be truly successful in your acting career and your life. Daniel Day-Lewis said this. It is my job to be drained. Whenever we hold on to something it gets old and stagnant. It is unused and Unworthy of benefiting anyone. Are you drained today? Are you…
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6 Tips for Memorizing Your Lines
Memorizing lines is something an actor must do. Here are six tips that will help you make this process much easier and maybe even fun.
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Your Lazy 8 - How to Talk YOUR Way to a Successful Acting Career and Life
Have you ever wondered what your brain looks like it's filled with learning curves! What are you learning today and how are you influencing those curves? In this audio podcast I will give you some very significant tips on how to curve your way to a successful acting career and a better lifestyle....
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5 Ways to Teach Yourself Acting
There are things that you can do to teach yourself how to act. What are they? Listen to this podcast and I think you'll be very pleased at the progress you can make in five very simple but significant ways each day to become a better actor and a better human being.
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The 3 Things Successful Actors Do Each and Everyday
Acting is a series of the steps to practice each and every day. In order to do these things, we must become substitutes. What does that mean? Listen and I'll tell you. www.davidthompsoncoaching.co
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4 Words That Will Change the Way You Think About Life & Acting
Words are our stock and trade as far as acting is concerned. There are four words in particular that we interchange every day which paves new avenues to waln on or throw up a do not enter sign. What are they? www.davidthompsoncoaching.co
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FAITH or FEAR and How They Guide Your Acting Career & Life
Faith or fear? Which one have you chosen today.? They are both power and they can both be used for good or for evil. They can be applied as you choose because your change is a choice not a Chance.
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The Power of Creative Rest and How to Achieve it
Have you ever wanted to achieve something but found yourself too tired to finish? Actors are notorious for that as well as anyone with a creative passion. Here is a few tips that you can use that will enable you to rest and be creative without losing your energy.
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What Seeds of Greatness are You Planting Today? How to Plant & Prosper
Everything is like a seed. In fact everything is a seed. Everything that we think and everything that we do is a start of something. It's the start of a change or it's the start of a new beginning. What kind of seeds do you have in your life that you're planting today? You're acting career is...
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How to Love Your Life & Acting Career & Not just LIKE' It
Do you love your life or do you like it? That's a big question social media has a very influential pull on that type of decision. In this podcast you will learn, or I will attempt to show you the difference between loving your life and just liking it. The solution is to slow down. Thank you for...
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What Type OF Animal Role' are You Playing ?
Actors play many roles. And that's a good thing. However there are two types of animals in the acting industry kingdom. There are rabbits, and then there are lions or lionesses. Which one are you playing today? This podcast I'm going to show you the difference between a lion and a rabbit.
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How to Become a Quality Actor
Quantity and quality. What is the difference? One takes time and the other one doesn't. In order to become a great actor just like anything great in life, you must take the time to become that. If you don't and you try to go to the quick route, or quantity? You're going to end up empty and want…
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Resources VS. Resourcefulness / How to Change Your Life Instantly
There is a difference between resources and resourcefulness resources are all around us, while resourcefulness lies waiting for us to tap into it inside of us. So how do we bring that out? How do we change what we believe and move ahead in life.? The answer is easier than what you may believe.…
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HOW to Avoid Failure & Embrace Success in Acting & Life!
How do you avoid failure? Don't make it an option. Don't have a plan B only have a plan A. But how do you do this how do you rearrange the way you think or believe so you can only Embrace success and leave failure in the background.?
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How To Act Without Thinking
How do you act without thinking? Well I want you to think about that just for a minute. Thinking is necessary in order to do correct? However, in order to do we must stop thinking. In this podcast you will learn how to do that. It's not easy and yet it's not hard. Actually, it's common sense. But...
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2 Choices Every Actor Must Make!
Choose your choice, because change is not a chance it's a choice. If you want to change something in your life do it now, because if you wait... you just might find yourself in the middle of an earthquake. Pay attention to the tremors and changes in your life and make the minor adjustments and...
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Having Challenges in Your Acting & in Your Life?, GOOD!!!
😀 if you're having struggles, if you're having challenges which actually is a better word than struggle, good! Embrace the challenge and ride the wave to the shore. You're growing! Do you call a problem a problem or do you call a problem, a question? In this podcast you will learn the difference...
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You are Enough and here's Why!!
Have you ever felt that you weren't enough? That's your first mistake feeling. Emotions cannot think they're not designed to think, that's why God gave us a mind and a common sense to use. Here is how to thwart the negative emotions that create the thoughts that create the words that create us....
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5 Steps to Conquer Your Success! Dean Grasiozi
There are five steps to conquering your success. Now you may wonder what does it mean to conquer your success? Don't you want to embrace your success? You are more than success you are more than how you do things. Who you are is most important. Listen to my friend Dean, and how he Define success.
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Why You Should Be Disturbed About Your Acting Career
If you're disturbed about something in your life that means it needs attention. Attending to something such as your acting career needs to be on a conscious level. Be happy where you are but continue to feed the desire to become better. How do you do that?
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Tht Best Acting Tool & How People Use it & Abuse it
Tools are very important for creating things. One of the tools that actors and non-actors use every day of their lives is a little tool called money. Now money, should be used intelligently, but more often than not we use it emotionally. I recently interviewed the first president you can hear him...
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A Popular Trend for Actors You Should Know About
Actors act. Actors take action. Without action actors could not act, right? Many times we sit on the sidelines cheering others on and believing that we are actually in the game, or in the acting game. The truth of it is this. If we're not acting we're Not actors. How do you change this? It's not...
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How to Avoid Common Pitfalls so You Can Achieve More in Your Acting Career Goals
We are all subject to falling into the comfort zone of our lives. The moment we are satisfied we relax. In order to pick I'm a great actor and continue to grow as one, you must discipline our daily habits and continue to create a better life. How do you do that? Listen and I'll tell you.
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What Do Great Actors Do & How You Can do IT too!
It's really no secret how to become a great actor. But the secret lies in applying this particular discipline in your life. What separates you and me from people like George Clooney, Julia roberts, Betty davis, Anthony Hopkins or any other great actor. It's focus. Question? How do you focus your...
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HOW to Expect the Best in Your Acting & Your Life
What you expect in life is what you get. However it goes deeper than that. What you believe is what you receive based upon what you expect. In this podcast episode, I will give you some steps that you can take as well as think about, to raise your expectations so you can achieve what you want in...
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Acting Tips to get the Most out of Your 24 Hours
We all have 24 hours in a day. Question is? How are you choosing to spend those hours? ARE you investing them and if so what benefits are you receiving from your investment? Here are some helpful acting tips that you can apply to your life today!
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Time & How to Invest it. Words for Actors & Non- Actors.
What is the one gift, the one power that you and I have today, right now in this moment that we can use for living a successful fulfilling life? In fact we're using it right now. But how are you using it? How am I using it are we spending it or investing it? I invite you to listen grow and learn.
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If You Only Had 23 Minutes a Day? What would You Do?
Time is a tool and it could be used anyway that we choose. If you only had 23 minutes a day to change your life, to change your acting career, to reinvent yourself as an actor, what would you do? Here are some tips and some epiphanies for you listeners. www.davidthompsoncoaching.co
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Success is not What You Become, It's Who You Are
When you were born you were naked. Not just physically, but economically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. There are three seasons in life what are they and how do they affect you and your acting career? Let me show you how. www.davidthompsoncoaching.co
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TOP 10 Actor Success Habits
Developing habits is a very important event. What habits are you developing for your acting career or for your life? Is it time to reinvent yourself? Or renew your habits and make them even better and more fitting to what you envision for your life? Here are 10 habits that you can adopt that will...
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It's Not too late to Reinvent Yourself / 5 Steps to Reinventing Yourself as an Actor
Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself as an actor but didn't know the steps to take? In this podcast I will give you 5 ways to Reinvent yourself, to ReDiscover yourself as an actor and as a human being. It's not too late. www.davidthompsoncoaching.co
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Passion! Learning to Live the Abundant Life & not just exist. A guide for Actors
Everyone has a unique passion or a set of passions that God gave them. What is your passion and when was the last time that you embraced it? When was the last time that you acted on your passion or pursued it with all of your heart? Here are some tips and thoughts that will help you to realize…
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T.M.I. & N.E.A./ 2 ACRONYMS Every Actor Should Know
The world is filled with too much information, or as typically referred to as tmi. It's a very dangerous & non-productive way to live, especially for actors. This world is rapidly changing, but you don't have to change with it. You can still have a fulfilling acting career and a fulfilling life....
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The Difference Between Actors & Non Actors
What exactly is the difference between an actor and a non actor? What are the similarities or parallels? What's the best way to deal with people that are either negative or don't give a rat's butt for what you're pursuing? That and many more questions I answer for you on today's podcast....
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Burn Your Ships! How to Walk Away, and into a Brighter Future.
Burn the ships? What exactly does that mean? Anything that is holding you back is not pushing you forward. Or it is not propelling you onward. If success, is when preparation meets opportunity, and you're in an old rickety ship of your life, you're not prepared for any opportunity that will bring...
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From Here to Eternity! Focusing on What Matters In-between.
You and I are actors or some people in the entertainment industry right? We are between Earth and Heaven or like the movie from here to Eternity. What we do in the meantime, OR in between will determine our destiny and a reward in Heaven. You were given a little time upon this Earth, to develop…
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COVID has Created another Plan-demic! Here's what You Can Do to Avoid It!!
Covid-19 has left its mark in social circles, and I know that's exactly what the government wanted. Now people are left with what I like to call "the chirp syndrome." What is the Chirp Syndrome you ask? It's something very serious and it causes a goodly amount of pain and distancing. What's more,...
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Are You Ready For The Big Time? How to Answer this question in 4 steps.
What is the big time in acting? Is it Hollywood is it your first roll on a stage or in front of a camera or a voiceover? Success is subjective it's different for everyone. Here are 4 steps that you can take, & act on, that will you GET YOU ready for your own type of big time!...
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What Would You Do, If You Were Younger? Questions to Ask Yourself .
What would you do if you were younger? It's a big question isn't it? What did you do or accomplish in your younger years that you could see yourself doing again? Age, cliches, and the well-meaning people in your life can stop you from achieving a new dream and you're acting and in your life. So...
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Your Creative Spark and How to Keep it from Going Out!
Robin williams, actor, once said "you're only given a little spark of madness, you mustn't lose it.". Have you ever had an epiphany or something that woke you up? And I'm not talking about sleep. That jolt of life that makes you cry out and say what am I doing here!? It is so vital not only for...
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2 POWERFUL Words that will either Launch or sink Your Acting Career & Life.
Words create everything in our lives. So it behooves us to ask the proper questions at the proper times. Two words. One will hold you back placing you in a lot of fear and pain and misery. The other word will Propel you forward launching your acting career in your life both professional and...
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Avoid This and You'll Have A Fulfilling Life & a Successful ACTing Career
There are certain things in life and in our acting careers that we should avoid and this is one of them. The one thing that we should avoid above all else, is gossip. Gossip tears the very fibers of our human soul apart and it separates us from our ability to effectively Network and connect with...
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The Secret to a Successful Life & Acting Career
Life is full of seeds. Everything we create begins as a seed. From a pregnant mother to a tall tree to an idea for a business or a film, everything is a seed it's a thought or a word. Question is what's the ingredient, the secret ingredient that allows that seed to grow and manifest itself? What…
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What If You Had Only 90 Minutes to Live? See The Angriest Man in Brooklyn 2014 / Robin Williams
Time is the only precious commodity that can never be replaced. What would you do if you only had 90 minutes to live what if it was today? What would you do with that time? Because truthfully, you and I have absolutely no idea how much time we have left upon this Earth. This Earth is meant to be…
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The Transforming Power of Gratitude. Strategies I've Learned.
What are you grateful for in your life? If you could be grateful for one thing what would it be? Have you ever taken people or things or even your health for granted simply because you've grown accustomed to those things? Those people? Here are a few strategies that you can use to use the power…
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What Road Are You Traveling? How to Assess your Road & Access a Better One!
What road are you on? Roads lead to destinations and during that time, you are on a journey. Acting is a journey , life is a journey. Sometimes in life an interacting career we need to change roads because the one that was working for us is no longer evenly paved, and we get confused on our...
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The 3 Things Successful Actors Practice & You Can Do the Same!
Successful people do things that unsuccessful people don't do. This is what separates success from failure. In fact there are a few things in this podcast that I think will help you find your own success in the field of acting. What are they? Take ACTion and find out!
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Why Some Actors Make It' & Some Don't & What You Can Do to Change it
Why are some actors wildly successful, and other actors barely making it? Is it Talent, skill, or perhaps it is luck. Honestly it is not any of these. These things are the RESULT of a Power that You and I possess right now. What is it? Listen 👂 to today's podcast. davidthompsoncoaching.co
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How to Master Your E-Motions in Acting & in Life
What is the difference between time management and emotional management? The difference is time management doesn't exist. It's when you learn to master your emotions that you become disciplined and discipline results in freedom to do exactly what you want when you want it and how much you want to...
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Welcome to Reel Actors Real Answers! The podcast where actors, directors, producers, and script writers offer their experiences, stories and expertise. Looking to learn more about the craft of acting and the performing arts? You've come to the right podcast. Looking for a professional actor & acting coach with 30 years of experience? I invite you to contact me. www.davidthompsoncoaching.co
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