THE ACTOR’S PASSPORT TO HOLLYWOOD

As everyone knows, before you can enter a new country, a passport is required. The passport itself does not provide transportation, nor maps to places you’ve never been, nor lodging, food or clothing. No education; no financial aid; no new friends. The passport merely allows you to cross over into new territory and back again.

To most non-Angelenos, Hollywood might just as well be a “foreign country”. Even people who move here from, say, Bakersfield or San Diego (only a couple of hours away) find it a maze of unknowns, often difficult to navigate, both literally and figuratively. For most actors, however, Hollywood is not thought of as foreign; it’s “the promised land”, the place they strive to reach by hook or by crook.

This site, which you so cleverly discovered, is meant to serve as your passport to the actor’s life in Hollywood. Before you delve any further into it, we would like to make our “mission” clear. No need wasting anyone’s time – this may very well NOT be what you were searching for. That being said…

- IF you are an actor living somewhere other than Hollywood…

- IF you have ever dreamed of pursuing an acting career, but didn’t have a clue how to begin…

- IF you are scared to death of scams and/or the myriad ways in which strangers seem to want to relieve you of your cash…

- IF you think you are ready, yet are totally unprepared (two different things!) to make the move to Hollywood…

- IF you are already living in Hollywood, but feel like a fish out of water, because no one ever bothered to tell you how things really work here…

…then this may very well be the place for you.

We have over 20 years experience as Hollywood talent agents. We are sick and tired of seeing Hollywood “hopefuls” being stripped of both their hard-earned cash and their dignity, due almost exclusively to a lack of knowledge about how show business really works.

Ignorance may be bliss, but not for very long. A person cannot know what he does not know. In other words, you may not know what questions to ask and therefore, the answers to those very important questions will remain a mystery for far too long, costing you both time and money. This site is designed to provide you with both the pertinent questions and their answers.

Because we want nothing from you and because we have no interest in representing you (whoever you may be), we have constructed this site anonymously. The only thing you will have to invest here is your trust that we are, indeed, very knowledgeable about the actor’s life in Hollywood. Most of the information we intend to impart can be easily checked for its accuracy by you. We have absolutely nothing to gain by sharing misinformation, so why would we bother?

Our opinions, on the other hand, are just that: Opinions. But bear in mind that they are opinions that have been developed over many years of observing the good, the bad, and the just plain stupid behavior of literally thousands of actors. If we can prevent just one person reading this from losing his or her shirt (or even fifty bucks!), it’ll be worth all the time and effort we are putting into this site. If we can help even one truly talented person attain his or her goals as an actor, all the better.

We are in this business because we happen to adore actors. Yes, they can and often do drive us nuts, yet they are still the most alive, creative, quirky and interesting people we have ever encountered. That shouldn’t come as any surprise to you, since you, yourself (if you’ve gotten this far on this page) are either an aspiring actor, an accomplished actor, a concerned relative, or merely someone who finds actors to be as fascinating as we do!

So…if you are in need of demystification and clarification of the acting field in Hollywood (some of what you learn here can also be applied to New York and Chicago, etc., but it will almost always refer specifically to Hollywood), then please consider this ever-evolving site as your passport to a better, more informed career in Tinseltown. If nothing else…

Your dreams are welcome here!