In order to be successful in the acting industry, you have to set realistic goals for yourself. Without those goals, you have nothing to reach for. If you set unrealistic goals, then you’re never going to reach them. You have to sit down, think of what you want, and then look at the path it takes to get there. You just can’t jump from the bottom straight to the top. Yes, that does happen on some occasions when a person is “discovered,” but that is something that doesn’t happen as often as it used to. There was once a day in which being “discovered” was a common occurrence.

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