Lessons learned from running a business, raising a family, or caring for a sick parent have given you an awareness that would be difficult to attain without having lived them. All this adds depth to your work as an actor. Two-time Emmy winner Kathryn Joosten started acting in community theater at the age of So get out there and explore your passion.
See you in acting class! The irony of writing this advice column is how often I find myself wanting somebody to tell ME what to do, in my own offline life. Sometimes I'll even say, "What would Johnny say?
The feeling that I've made the "right" decision. So here's what Johnny would say to you all: Countless studies, both anecdotal and scientific, have proven that we regret the things we do NOT pursue more than the things we do. That is to say: YOLO, so you better make it count. Worrying that you're too old for anything — the theatre, the dating scene, "The Voice" — is a fruitless affair.
You are what you are, and the alternative is that you aren't, at all. The alternative is that you're not on earth to experience the grace and wisdom of getting older. When I was seventeen my way-too-old-for-me boyfriend gave me a copy of Gilda Radner 's autobiography, which was the best thing he ever did for me.
My parents had loved her work on "SNL," so I'd grown up with a sense of her cracking jokes in the background. It wasn't until I read her book, though, that I felt such a direct connection to somebody whose towering talent and humor was cut tragically short by cancer.
It was my AHA! The reality that I wasn't going to live forever hit me only then, and it changed the way I danced forever. From then on out, when I went to auditions I placed myself in the front instead of hiding in the back. When I took dance classes I fell out of pirouettes, and asked questions. Someday I was going to die. I became willing to be laughed at, and you must, too.
Do I think any of the three of you have a chance at Broadway? I don't know, to be honest. I find myself constantly surprised, even a decade-plus into my life in New York, by who does and doesn't get cast in things. But that's not really what you're asking me. You're asking for permission to attempt something that you already know you need to attempt — at least at some level, "even" locally — lest you spend your life in the clutches of regret rent "The Turning Point" to see what I mean.
However old you three are, if you're asking the question "Am I too old? Don't quit your day job. Did you read that above? I'm saying it again, and again: Don't quit your day job. And if you don't have a day job, and are a full-time student, don't slack off on your studies because you're living for the evening rehearsals. There has been nothing so rewarding as watching my children discover their talents!
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