The It Factor Productions VIP Talent
Connect Asks: Who Mentored Richard Dreyfuss?
Richard Dreyfuss is a well-known stage and screen actor. His
films include Jaws, The Goodbye Girl, Mr. Holland’s Opus, and so many more
important and well known major motion pictures. Alycia Kaback, CEO of The
It Factor Productions, looks up to him and here’s why:
Richard Dreyfuss says, “Someone asked me, why was Rose Jane
such a great teacher? And I said, because she believed that we were as great as
we thought we were. She was an extraordinary drama teacher who filled us with
confidence. And confidence, as an artist, is incredibly important.
I had a teacher who expected us to fail all the time. And
yet somehow, everything I came to love in my life I learned in her class.
Because she had no patience for us. “Come on. Shakespeare. Come on, let’s go.”
And I swear, when Mr. Holland’s Opus opened and I was thinking about Mrs.
Wilcox, I tracked her down. Because I realized this weird thing: that I owed
her something. I had always told the story of this grumpy woman. But I found
her in San Diego. I called her up and said, you won’t remember me but I was in
Horseman Elementary in 1962. And I want you to know that everything I ever came
to love — history, Shakespeare — I learned in your class. And she said, “Thank
you very much,” and hung up.”
The It Factor Productions tells our KMM Talent over and over
again to always say thank you- you never know where that persons influence will
end up taking you in your modeling, acting, music, or dance career.
He continues, “And I swear, those two people, those two
teachers clearly and profoundly affected who I am.
Giving back, or being part of a community, and sensing your
obligation or sensing the weave of community, is not only a good and decent
thing, it’s been the goal of western civilization for 5,000 years. It shouldn’t
be thought of as something extraordinary. It should be thought of as business
as usual.
On an individual basis, it’s fun. It’s fun to see the light
in someone’s eyes. It’s fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it
land. That’s fun. And you live longer. You live in their thought, and their
thought, and their thought. For whatever reason that we fear death, it’s always
nicer to think, someone will be thinking of me in 200 years, or someone will be
thinking my thought. Or I will have contributed to that thought that still
lives.
Why The It Factor Productions Says
You Need A Mentor to Break into Entertainment
The It Factor Productions firmly believes that one of the
key ingredients that will help you succeed in the entertainment industry, or
any industry for that matter, is having a mentor who has been where you are and
has gone where you want to go in their career as an entertainer. No
matter whether you want to become a model, learn how to land gigs as an actor,
get signed to a record label, or join a prominent dance company, having the
opportunity to pick the brain of someone who’s actually done it can help you
tremendously in achieving your goals as an artist. This is why The It
Factor Productions and Alycia Kaback produce VIP Talent Connect Entertainment Networking
Summits in NYC. To drive home this point, The It Factor Productions will
be releasing a series of interviews with famous people you look up to in the
industry talking about the mentors without whom they would not have made their
break into the entertainment industry.
Follow the link for more celebrity interviews on mentoring
in the entertainment industry from The It Factor Productions.
The Article credit goes to: The It Factor Productions and Alycia Kaback
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