{"id":93,"date":"2012-07-26T04:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T04:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2013-07-24T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:15:50","slug":"thank-you-actors-voiceover-or-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/thank-you-actors-voiceover-or-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Actors (Voiceover or Otherwise!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">I was recently in NYC visiting friends and family and doing some voiceover demo production work, and because I have friends in the industry there I also spent some time in the waiting areas of places like www.actorsconnection.com and www.oneononenyc.com.\u00a0 I found a new appreciation for the actor.\u00a0 The waiting, sitting, shifting, waiting actor.\u00a0 As someone who has always been on the other side of that \u201cwait\u201d and never really thought about it, I really identified this time with the actor.\u00a0 The struggle, the waiting, the trying-really-hard and leaving the decision in someone else\u2019s hands\u2026\u2026wow.\u00a0 Actors are made with some of the toughest materials on earth:\u00a0 patience, inspiration, creativity, endurance, perseverance, and unwavering conviction.\u00a0 My only point for this entire blog is to say thank you to ALL of you for those amazing traits that you possess; traits that allow the world to shine a little brighter and with a bit more color.\u00a0 We producers, directors, coaches, agents, writers, etc. could not do what we do without you \u2013 and yet you have it harder than anyone else in the business.\u00a0 Always striving to be the best you can be in spite of uncertainty and rejection, always giving us more and more of you.\u00a0 Thank you!!\u00a0 I would not be able to sit in that waiting room for more than a minute before the impatience and frustration and self-righteousness (and ultimately self-doubt) crept in.\u00a0 It is truly an amazing leap of spiritual and mental faith in yourself and others that keeps you from giving up.\u00a0 Please keep on keepin\u2019 on because the world is gray without you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently in NYC visiting friends and family and doing some voiceover demo production work, and because I have friends in the industry there I also spent some time in the waiting areas of places like www.actorsconnection.com and www.oneononenyc.com.\u00a0 I found a new appreciation for the actor.\u00a0 The waiting, sitting, shifting, waiting actor.\u00a0 As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}