Acting : A small thought... by Bhavnisha Parmar

For me I said family time and then after reflection decided that my bed was also a top runner.

Thge biggest sacrifice is letting go of the pain and agony of the unknown and seeking out my field of dreams on FAITH!

When you're doing something you feel called to do, nothing feels like a real sacrifice. Because if I have to give up something, it means that it was in the way of my goals. Too many actors use negative words like "sacrifice", "starving artist", etc. to describe this life. If you define it that way, it will feel that way and could ultimately send you back to the "stable" life of a desk job. Yuck!

I slept in a park in Studio City to stay in a play where I ended up being stiffed, so.....I beg to differ Matthew.

Suzanne, How you choose to define that experience, and more importantly, how you choose to let it define you is my point. We all have our stories like yours. But hopefully you don't go around lamenting about that experience and use that as an excuse to quit the business. I'm not trivializing the challenges we face as artists. I'm merely addressing the very real issue of the language we choose to associate with those experiences. Negativity begets negativity. Maybe I've listened to too much Tony Robins :)