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No doubt you have some modest goals for improving yourself as an actor.

But what you really want is greatness. You may feel it’s silly to continue to nurture the dream. But it isn’t. You don’t mention it to your family because they won’t understand. You don’t tell your friends for fear of sounding delusional. You don’t even share the dream with your fellow actors knowing that they’ll scoff.

But, because you have talent, the dream of greatness will always return.
You can try to quit acting. You can resign yourself to a modest career. But the vision of greatness will come back to haunt you.

You need to incorporate this vision into your life and honor it by giving it time. By giving it life on a regular basis. The dream of greatness will bother you, unless you’re paying it tribute. Then the dream will turn and honor you.

Consistently strengthen yourself as an actor and hold a vision of greatness in your mind.

The vision you had for yourself when you first became an actor was right. You saw yourself as a force of nature, as unique and radiant and endlessly creative. Then reality hit, the reality of business, branding, over-crowding and rejection, the reality of your own limitations.

You can adjust to all the nonsense and all the sobering facts and still feed the living vision of greatness within you.

The modest goals will be achieved on the way to higher goals. Improvements will encourage you. And actively turning your dream into positive steps will give you peace of mind and satisfaction as an artist.

– Robert McCaskill

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