Success Doesn’t Come Easy Or Fast

The types of risks people take in life are directly related to their definition of success. The person who defines success as living comfortably and raising a family is going to live life very differently from the person who defines it as hosting talk shows. Jumping off of snowy mountains every day strapped to a board is a perfectly reasonable risk for an aspiring professional snowboarder, but not for someone aspiring to become a plastic surgeon. There is, however, a problem within the industry I work in, entertainment. When people talk of succeeding within it, they actually mean becoming famous. It’s an attitude I have ran into often in my trials as an actor…
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