You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery episode number 44.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

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In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks,

and insider information to help you portray characters in animation, video games and beyond.

And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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In this episode, I want to ask you a serious question. Do you think like an artist? The reason I believe

this question is so important is because often I find that many people who are attracted to voice

acting, especially for animation and video games, started out as fans of those artistic mediums.

That was certainly the case with me. Much of my desire to work as a

voice actor was because of my love for animated storytelling. However, as I pursued my dreams of

becoming a professional actor, first in theater and then in voice acting, I had to make a mental

shift from thinking about working on stories from a fan's point of view

to thinking about collaborating on those stories from an artist's point of view.

You could also think of it as the difference between being a consumer and being a creator.

Consumers and creators don't just think differently. They think opposite from each other.

The best way I know to articulate

this difference in mindset is to quote the famous acting teacher and father of modern acting

styles, Constantine Stanislavsky. In giving advice to aspiring actors, Stanislavsky once told them,

love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. A pithy statement to be sure,

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