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TODAY'S INSPIRATION: “Do you want to be a good actor? Do you really love acting? Is it in your heart and your soul? Then you have to do some real serious work on yourself. And if you feel cramped up, if you cry three or four times a day, but when you come up here something closes down, you have to find out why that is. And definitely, coming up on a stage is the most terrifying thing you can do other than sinking on the Titanic or something, and they've done studies about actors and about emotions and about real happenings and the emotions that actors feel on the stage... are the same emotions that people really feel when they're really in a fire, really going down on the Titanic. It isn't just make-believe. It's real... what happens to you... and you're shutting down because you're afraid to feel things. Something inside of you is saying this is just acting, it's not real, don't go in there, don't hurt like that. And you have to find out why. Somewhere, something in you doesn't want to be seen, and until you figure out who it was that told you to do that, or somewhere the little girl that wants to hide, you're never going to be able to show us who you are. And then you'll never be able to get to your art.” – Sally Field