Colleen Wainright, the Communicatrix, gives Hollywood Grit an interview on her experiences as a working actor, especially the contrarian advice in this awesome column she wrote for lacasting.com:

Work on making yourself the actor that has agents chasing you, rather than the other way around...your hire-ability gets you work, not your agent...break out of that mentality of waiting for your break to come to you. But the thing is, there’s no one break. It’s mainly a myth, and when it’s not, it’s never the thing you predicted it would be.

Download the podcast for some provocative thinking from somebody who's done it (part 1 of 2).