Anthony Meindl

Want To Book a TV Pilot? Here's How.

In my acting, I’d try to pretend to be someone else being the “character.” So I’d play ideas or mimic famous people or show caricatures because how could I ever believe that someone would ever be interested in merely watching me? That could never be enough, could it?

Stop Caring What Other People Think Of You

You’ve got to stop caring how you think other people think of you. The truth is – they’re not thinking of you – because they’re thinking of themselves. Like all of us.

How To Embrace Your 'Type'

The business is built on “types.” And you’re going to get work according to your type. But we often have so many judgments about those parts of ourselves that we exclude ourselves from even being considered for the job.

How to Book the Job: Fake It ‘Til You Make It

One of my favorite sayings is, “Fake it ‘til you make it,” and in so doing one day you’ll wake up realizing you’ve become it.

How To Conquer The Stress Of The Audition Room

Living a more creative, abundant, fully expressed and joyful life benefits from following the major tenets of a spiritual and meditative practice.

5 Things Actors Can Learn From Entrepreneurs

Actors are constantly marketing themselves. So how do you present yourself in an exciting, original way? You just have to believe and know that you’re a great product worth investing in.

Why Being a Non-Conformist Is Essential To Acting

Being a non-conformist is not about you putting something on top of who you already are. It’s allowing your essential nature to come forward.

Why You Need To Be Vulnerable As An Actor

Your light that shines upon the world is different from anyone else’s. How you shine is the individual expression of who you are. Your light isn’t more special than someone else’s – we’re all plugged into the same electrical grid – but it is unique to you.

Why the Industry Needs You Just As You Are

We mistreat ourselves and allow mistreatment by others because if we truly believed we were enough, we wouldn’t settle for bad behavior that supports our beliefs that we’re inadequate.

Why You Need To Pay Attention To Your Heart as an Actor

Just like training your pet snake to do something – besides eat rats and constrict – it's difficult to make changes that are permanent in our own physiological system, if we don’t know how it works.