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To Tony,
I have to say this is the best acting site i have EVER been to. I'm sure you have helped many people begin their dream!
I've helped in advertising your site to over 38 of my aspiring actor friends.
You are doing an amazing thing by helping these people.
I wish you the best in your acting career so that you may be a role model for all those who look up to your sucess.
-Rachael W., actress, Canada
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Anthony,
Happy New year to you. I really enjoy your e-mails and your website. As someone who has just started the journey of becoming an actor I enjoy your site which is full of wonderful insights and answers to questions I have had, and it's funny but it seems as though every time you update your site, it answers a question I have been struggling with at that point.
Thank you for your website, you have helped me a lot as I know you have helped numerous others.
Have a wonderful 2008 and may you break a leg in everything you do this year as an actor.
Sam T Kelly, actor, Los Angeles, CA
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Tony,
I did what you said and…I got two interviews with two agents! Thank you! Sorry but can I ask you…how do I prepare to go meet the agent? What do I have to do?
Marsha P., New York, NY, USA
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Tony,
I just wanted to let you know that I copied a quote of your's and I'm putting it on my refrigerator when I move to L.A. this next week. Thanks for the continued encouragement to all of us trying to achieve our goals. Keep up the good work.
Best,
Kyle S., actor
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This site has taught me a lot that I needed to know without dragging me all over the place.
Lauren, actress, Atlanta, GA
Here is a list of 43 Motivational Quotes To Make Ya Think!
How can you think and
hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
Champions in any field have made a habit
of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable.
Anonymous
If I had three hours to chop down a tree,
I’d spend the first hour sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
If we don’t invest much energy then defeat doesn’t
hurt as much, but neither is winning very exciting.
Dick Vermeil
What counts is not the number of hours
you put in but how much you put in those hours.
Anonymous
Great works are performed, not
by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
A chain breaks at
its weakest link, and so do we.
Anonymous
The less effort, the faster and more
powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee
Success is sweet, but it usually
has the scent of sweat about it.
Anonymous
When we feel willing and eager
the gods join in.
Aeschylus
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol
We have been taught to believe that negative
equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Susan Jeffers
To live creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
When you are feeling depreciated, angry or drained, it is
A sign that other people are not open to your energy.
Sanaya Roman
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it.
Somerset Maugham
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
If you can’t say no, that means you
Don’t have a strategy.
Charlie Denson
Life shrinks or expands in
Proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
Shoot for the moon. Even if you
Miss it, you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
Money will come when you are dong the right thing.
Mike Phillips
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there
Is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Peter Drucker
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke
All you need to do to receive guidance
Is to ask for it and then listen.
Sanaya Roman
It is not because things are difficult that we do
Not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
Take your life in your own hands and what hapapens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Les Brown
Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Anonymous
Whether you think you can or whether
you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford
You must either modify your dreams
or magnify your skills.
Jim Rohn
Who likes not his business,
his business likes not him.
William Hazlitt
Winners take time to relish their work,
knowing that scaling the mountain is
what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley
The most serious mistakes are not being
made as a result of wrong answers. The truly
dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
Drucker
Why did I want to win?
Because I didn't want to lose!
Max Schmelling
To succeed in business, to reach the top,
an individual must know all it is possible
to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty
To win without risk isto triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to,
thing to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
James Broughton
To think creatively, we must be able
to look afresh at what we normally
take for granted.
George Kneller
To think is easy. To act is difficult.
To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Spanish Proverb
The man who does not work for
the love of work but only for
money is not likely to neither
make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles M. Schwab
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Hi Tony
I would like to thank you for helping me with the monologue question I asked in October 2007. I went to the auditions for a Drama course and I am happy to say that I have been accepted as a first-year student at the Tshwane University of Technology.
Please keep on sending me those newsletters and let me know where I can find books that will help me in my acting career.
Thank you once more.
Have a blessed day.
Sincerely
Edward Thaba -South Africa
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Hi,
I was wondering if there is anything established like actingstartup.com in the U.K. because you are amazing and I have learned loads...
Thank You.
Nadine., Newcastle, UK
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Dear Anthony,
Just wanted to thank you for bringing me in to [audition for the video], meet you and chat this Saturday. I was really excited to hear about your working on actingcareerstartup.com and even took a look at it today - it's awesome! You are very well-spoken, knowledgeable and enthusiastic, and it shows through the work that you do! I hope our paths in the industry will cross again and really enjoyed meeting you. Thanks, again and best wishes with your very important work!
Warmly,
Gretchen, NY, NY
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Hey Tony, thanks for the info, yours by far is the most useful, I am 30 years old, and I myself always (secretly) wanted to be an actress, but I never knew where to begin, so thank you. You have given me hope!
Ana C., Tampa, FL
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Hi, I’m John.
You answered a question for me about two weeks ago about how to write my cover letters…I want you to know your advice was helpful. I got called in for a part as an extra in my first movie! It’s not big, but it’s my first one! Thanks for your help!
John, San Diego, CA