, United States
The only thing that sepparates success from failure is motivation. My name is Justin Councill. My life has been a wild ride ranging from loosing loved ones, to getting cheated on many times by the girl of my dreams after 2 and a half years, to becoming extremely suicidal and winding up in a mental hospital, dopped up on medication, to stealing, to extreme substance abuse and many other addictions... to name a few. I was trying to seek out lower pleasures to cope with all the negativity in my life, and eventually I found that this was getting me no where. I had very short lived gratification, followed by an even more deppressing comedown. That's when I began to think about my options.. My greatest dream was always to be an actor. It wasn't about the fame, or the money, but just to be able to positively impact people with my work. Growing up in school, I was always the loner, who was kind of accepted but also never able to make any real friends. Even to this day, my best friend is probably my guitar. Because of me always being ostracized at school, I never really had the motivation to persue anything and even if I tried I had no self confidence. I felt completely trapped. I graduated Highschool, and began going through all the things mentioned above, with the sucide, the substance abuse, ect. After all this, I finoally developed the attitude that i've wanted my whole life, and that was just that "you, and you alone judge your level of success. Anything is possible. If you want something, you just go out there and get it." I guess the reason for this newly found revalation, was just that when all this negativity was going on, I was completely at rock bottom. The only way I had to go was up, so I did. I started college to learn acting so that I could follow my dream. My teacher was so impressed by my natural ability, that he kind of took me under his wing and gave me training that I still use to this day. Within a month I had auditioned and gotten two great agents. I even got a part on a reality show, and got flown out to Hollywood. I have a few different inependent films I'm working on now, but my passion is without a doubt, feature films. I've never been more inspired then when I see a great movie, and I want to be able to spread that same inspiration to others. Johnn depp is the actor that most inspires me. The fact that his childhood story is so close to mine is what really does it, and that's what I want to be to others; an inspiration. I want to prove that someone can rise up above all the negativity in their life and make something of themselves. That's my mission, and the whole purpose behind everything I do.

"Only After Disaster, Can We Be Resurrected"
"It's only after we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything." ~another one of my heroes

I probably have the largest variety of hobbies, from guitar, to boxing, to ALL extreme sports, to film stunts, to art, sculpting, and writing. All I can say is that, to be an actor is my absolute greatest dream, and I will do whatever it takes to achieve this dream.

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