Anthony Meindl

Why You Should Never Play It Safe as an Actor

Be really good. Be really bad. Just don’t be boring. That really says it all. In life and in our acting — the goal is to be fully expressed.

How To Maintain Perspective in Your Acting Career

When we don’t keep things in perspective and only on what isn’t working, we become defeated by rejections and challenges and lose perspective. Contextually, we’ve probably made great progress in order to get to where we now stand.

How Actors Really Get Into Character

The journalist and sociology researcher, Malcolm Gladwell, does a lot of interesting stuff. His best-selling books explore cultural phenomena, the science behind social shifts, and how our environment shapes and influences us in innumerable ways.

How To Find Inspiration

The reason we often don’t experience greater moments of inspiration and creativity in our own work is that we quit at the “frustration” phase, not knowing that this stage is an important part of our creative development.

How To Make Your Inner Journey Inform the Outer

For many of us, we’ve never been taught to identify with an inner journey. So we seek continuously outwardly. Partly this is due to our living in a culture that only measures results by the things we achieve and the amount of money we make.

3 Ways To Create the Best Agent Relationship

Why is this so hard for us? Why are we so scared to ask for what we deserve? Especially when it comes to agents and managers?

Push Through Your Fear Like an A-Lister

Like everything in acting, the things we most need to develop are the areas that have their own corresponding equivalent in our own personal lives.

Be Open To Being Yourself

Start with yourself. If you start anywhere else, it’s a false start, and you’ll just be forced to go back to the starting line and begin again and again.

Why 'No' Really Means 'Yes' In Your Acting Career

Hearing “No” isn’t really that big a deal. But when we associate it with incorrect interpretations in our left hemisphere – we make them mean, “I’m talentless.” “It’s never going to happen for me.” “I suck.” And then we immediately let the “No’s” defeat us.

Admitting What You Want Is the First Step to Success

When you’re asked a question, and your response is, “I don't know," wait for the second answer. It’s the true answer that you don’t want to say out loud.