Sabtu, 20 Februari 2010

Famous Spanish People - Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born on April 28, 1974 in Madrid, Spain. She has been twice nominated for both the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, although she has never won either. Her film debut was in the Spanish Film Jamon, Jamon in 1992, in which she played the role of Silvia. Jamon, Jamon was so successful, it went on to win the Academy Award in 1997 for Best Foreign Language Film. She received critical acclaim for her work and quickly grew in popularity, allowing her to work on two more movies, La Nina de tus Ojos and Belle Epoque. Her success in Spain allowed her to then move into American Film, where she is most famous for her work in the movies Blow, Vanilla Sky, and Bandidas.

Penelope was a very promising actress from a very young age. Born to Encara Sanchez, who worked as a personal manager and hairdresser, and Eduardo Cruz, who worked an auto mechanic and a retailer, Penelope would re-enact commercials she saw on the television. Despite her promise in acting, she instead chose to focus on dancing in her early career. Penelope studied classical ballet for nine years at the Spanish National Conservatory, and then received specialized training from Angela Garrido in Spanish Ballet. However after beating 300 other girls in an acting audition, Penelope gave up dance to further her acting career.

The decision payed off as Penelope's career blossoming quickly into what it is today, as she stands among Hollywood's elite actors. Penelope Cruz has influenced many people through her acting experience, and talents.

How Penelope Cruz Leverages Her Fear to Create Mastery

"When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck." - Penelope Cruz, Academy Award Winning Actor

Penelope Cruz makes no secret that she's terrified when she embarks on a new project, a new role. Inner thoughts of not being talented enough and anxiety over the sureness that she will be fired for one reason or another engulfs her mind as she prepares for those first few days on the set. While there is the occasional thespian who musters the temerity confidently to embody a character at the onset, Cruz is certainly not alone among actors who begin insecure and fearful they may not be able to deliver the performance the Director is looking for.

Fear and panic are not great external forces; they are powerful internal ones, generated deep in the part of the brain that is home to what I playfully call the Inner Critic. The Inner Critic is that egoic part of you that means well, wants to keep you safe, yet is woefully misguided. Preferring to keep you secure in your current comfort zone it will block you from stretching into the unknown. Every time you choose safety you reinforce what you terrifies you.

Unfortunately many talented people in every creative endeavor freeze and succumb to their fears. They Find Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) not to take on challenges, quit or hold back on the fullest expression of their creation. Have you ever faced an opportunity you wanted, perhaps even longed for, but were afraid? What went through your head at the time? Did allow your fear to hold you back or did you harness and leverage your fear to propel you forward beyond fear and into performance mastery?

Actors like Cruz acknowledge their inner fear and trepidation as they turn and focus that energy into their creation. As a committed actor, acting is more important to Cruz than giving in to her fear. Like an alchemist, she turns that fear into courage to push herself to even higher levels of excellence with each performance.

"I haven't lost the normal fear and insecurity that comes with acting, and I don't want to lose it. Every time a project starts, it feels like the first time. You have all these experiences that have been accumulating, yes, but it's still new, still fresh, and I love all of those feelings, all of them. Especially the fear. Because I need that fear. I use it as fuel." - Penelope Cruz

If you surrender to your fear, let it overpower you, you destroy the creative passion that burns within you. If you try to suppress your fear, tension will build and become blocked impulses, responses, emotions and thoughts. This is the death knell for an actor.

If you acknowledge your fear and release that depth of emotion into your performance, into your art, into whatever it is you what to bring forth into this world you will experience a life-affirming richness of fulfillment. You fear will disappear as you embracing the foreboding nightmare and mindfully step through it with every fiber of your being. There is nothing more thrilling and exhilarating than the fullest expression of your creative potential.

Senin, 15 Februari 2010

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