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She wants to be an actor? Actors WORK! Is she taking theater in school? Voice and diction lessons? Movement classes? Get her involved in dance and exercise classes. Make it clear to her that, while you support her goals, she has to work to attain them. Also, make it clear that doing well in school is her FIRST job.
I know you mean well and I get what you are saying, but acting is so spotty a career.
LA is stuffed with wannabe actresses doing the waitressing thing and occasionally getting a small part in a commercial or holding up perfume bottles at events.
Nothing to me is more beautiful than an attractive girl (with glasses) who has a REAL career-- say a doctor, engineer, assistant D.A., independent business owner, computer programmer. Forget the bubbleheads, girls who think are fucking sexy to any guy with more than a 90 I.Q.
I really do not know how this message continually fails to get through to moms and daughters.
