8 Insights From Alistair Findlay ~ Actor

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Alistair Findlay and I had a wonderful conversation about his life and career. We have carefully chosen 8 insights from our chat that you may find of use for your own life, no matter who you are, or what you do…

It’s one of the pleasures, actually seeing how other people perform, especially if they are better than you, and you can learn from them.
Then there’s mental resilience, most jobs need a certain amount of mental resilience, and for the times in between when there is no work.
Also the ability to get on with your fellow actors, crew and production especially in a touring theatrical production, but also on a film or TV set.
You know sometimes you give them great apples, but really, they want great pears, and then you don’t hear from them.
I don’t think there is really, which is probably a good thing. I would have liked to have written more but there is nothing stopping me. And what’s great about acting, there is no retirement age!
More recently I’ve been a cleaner at the local tennis club; cleaning the loos one day and then the next day I’m flying off to Canada on location. Gaps between payments are sometimes tricky.
Waste not, want not.
I usually go to the library, but I also get a lot of books from the local charity shops, read them and either pass them on to friends or back to the charity shop.