ACTOR AFFIRMATIONS

My personal favorites for right before an audition or performance:

· I release and destroy my need to get this job.

· I am going to take it from where I am.

· I release my need to control this audition. I know that I am not strong enough to control it, and therefore ask my higher power to be there to lovingly guide me through it.

· I am going to approach this scene as an improv.

· I release and destroy my need to be an “Actor”. Let them be the “Actors”, and have all the responsibilities that come with it. I am just here to be myself and have fun.

(or simply “I’m not an actor. I’m just here to be myself and have fun.”)

· (For Comedy) I release my need to be funny. I am here to tickle myself.

· (For Drama) I will not make choices, however I will allow choices to happen.

· I release and destroy my need to impress them. Fuck them. I can hate them.

More terrific affirmations:

· I am grateful for all the good in my life. I am worthy of all the good in my life.

· All is well in my world. I am one with the universe and have more than I need.

· I am relaxed, trusting in a higher plan that is unfolding for me.

· I release and destroy my attachment to results. I am here to enjoy the journey.

· I release and destroy my need to feel unworthy. I know that I am worthy of all the good in life and now lovingly allow myself to accept it. As I repeat this affirmation, my outer effect of procrastination fades away and I no longer feel the need to delay my own good.

· This, or something greater, for my highest good, and the highest good of all concerned.

· I forgive myself, unconditionally.

I put these affirmations here, at the very beginning, to stress their importance. If you didn’t read another word I’ve written, you could still benefit greatly from these affirmations.

My friend Seth, who found the affirmations very helpful during the run of his Off-Broadway show, shared them with Sutton Foster, who was at the time, playing the lead in the Broadway musical THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.

Sutton wrote to me describing her experience:

“During the long run of MILLIE, I was struggling so hard with the eight show a week and all of my demons and insecurities were getting the better of me. Seth shared with me your affirmations and I would read them every night before I went out on stage and remind myself of them while I was on stage. I hung the affirmations on my mirror at LITTLE WOMEN as well, and they are now a permanent part of my dressing room collection. They got me through many 'rough and doubtful' times. So thank you.”

– Sutton Foster (YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Tony nominated), LITTLE WOMEN (Tony nominated), THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Tony Award))

I gave them to a friend of mine who works constantly, and she wrote me the following testimonial:

"Ever since Jack Plotnick rescued me from the depths of audition despondence by introducing me to his affirmations, not an audition or stage performance goes by without me calling upon those wise and freeing words. Jack helped me remember that how we think about our work is just as important as the work itself."

- Carrie Preston (WOODY ALLEN SPANISH PROJECT, TRANSAMERICA, LOST, LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, B’way: FESTEN, THE RIVALS)

Enjoy them. They can change your life.