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CAREER 'Luck' In A Voice Over Career Comes To Those Who Earn It April 25, 2014 By Christian Rosselli Voice Actor  We often hear success stories in the voice over business that involve being in the right place at the right time.
These are stories about the fortunate few who have gone on to make six- or even seven-figure salaries and achieve a massive amount of recognition for their talents. The stories are pretty much same ...
But a great recent quote from actor Peter Dinklage brings new thinking to mind: "I hate that word 'Lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down a commercial where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in. So I won't say I'm lucky. I'll say I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them and they found me."This is the best quote on the subject that I've ever heard in a long time, and it couldn't be more life-affirming. What you don't know about the person who got that big break is that they were also working their butt off to get in front of the right people. CREATE YOUR 'LUCK' Voice over success is anything but overnight. Sometimes success comes from creating opportunities for ourselves, our agents (even though they might discourage it), our business partners, or our colleagues. Sometimes success comes from cold calling, emailing new and old clients a few times every couple of months, maximizing your presence on social media, reading for a new casting director, attending a popular voice over networking event or creating one yourself. In today's world of voice over, you've got to be a mover and a shaker. It requires a lot more work than being the voice of Chevy in 1992 and just chillin.' Sometimes it boils down to planting seeds anywhere and everywhere, and watching them grow over time. ---------------------------- ABOUT CHRISTIAN Christian Rosselli is a voice over artist based in New York City who specializes in commercial, corporate and industrial narration, promo, explainer videos, and award show-live announcing. He has worked with a wide variety of companies including AT&T, Bic, Boeing, CA Technologies, M&T Bank, Premio Foods, Ruby Tuesday, Tiaa-Cref, USA Today and many more! He is also an avid photographer, coffee drinker, and jazz connoisseur. Email: christian@christianrosselli.com web: www.christianrosselli.com |
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We earn opportunities. Grab only the right ones for you and that sets you up for that "luck." Heck, I was an overnight success. It only took me 35 years to make it happen.
So, THANK YOU Christian Rosselli! This goes on to help us newbies to keep us on our toes! :-)
I always say that you have to work at your craft every day, improve your skills and gain confidence in your abilities so that when luck comes your way, you're the one ready to take advantage of it. Luck is at the intersection of opportunity and preparedness.
You don't earn the chance to get lucky, you work hard to be able to take advantage of luck.
My neighbor, Chuck Fries who has produced hundreds of movies said to me,
"Cip, let me tell you about success in Hollywood. Success is 90% luck and 10% a LOTTA luck"
It makes me laugh when someone says there is no such thing as luck, because I've been one of the luckiest guys going!
Joe
Years of hard work, effort and talent may someday put us in the right place, at the right time. When that time comes, if we have not prepared for that moment, we will not be able to take advantage of the luck, or opportunity.
Thanks for the contribution!
Tell me when someone was 'lucky' and I'll tell you why it wasn't anything to do with luck.
People who win lotteries are not lucky, they just happen to have picked the same numbers that were selected. It's probability, not luck.
I could say that my dad was unlucky to die from skin cancer, but it was probably due to lack of education about the sun's damaging effects on DNA and overexposure to UV radiation without adequate protection that caused it - not bad luck.