The Actor's Survival Guide: How to Make Your Way in Hollywood
"One spring quarter, a rather direct advanced acting student challenged my sage advice by posing this question, "How do we know you know what you're talking about?" a less than subtle reference to the years spent in education and not as a practitioner. I puffed up in my best academic pique but then paused as a tiny voice in my head conceded, "Point taken!" This student was right. I lacked credibility. The entertainment industry had undoubtedly changed in twenty years and the probability existed that I didn't know what I was talking about... I could see only one solution, a sabbatical from academia and a return to professional acting. I, like thousands of wannabees, 90% of whom will fail, would move to Hollywood. But I would follow my learned, academic, professorial advice, and see just how far it got me..."