@filmacting111: A teacher at his acting school told him to quit. He was working as a doorman. He didn't listen. Gene Hackman was pulling shifts at a New York doorman job when one of his Pasadena Playhouse instructors found him and said the quiet part out loud — you don't have it, go home. That's the moment most actors break. Hackman didn't. He kept showing up, kept studying, kept working jobs that had nothing to do with the stage. Years later, that same teacher watched from the audience as Hackman accepted his first Academy Award. Every working actor knows this feeling. The rejection that almost ended it. The voice that says stop. The decision to keep going anyway. #ActingLife #GeneHackman #Rejection #ActorsJourney #Craft #Audition #NeverQuit #FilmActing #InMemoriam

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