Don’t Quit. Tenacity, patience, and diligence are the main keys to success in this career. People expect everything to come from a magical “Big Break.” And those happen. But they usually happen after ten years of hard work, heartbreak, and a lot of near misses. When actors don’t book a role, we usually don’t even get the word, “no.” We just get silence. You have to fight your way through thousands of silences until you hit that one day that the world shouts “YES. We want YOU.”