Super U Podcast | It’s Your Time: How to Perform Under Pressure with Rob Brownstein
What can actors teach us about confidence, resilience, rejection, and performing under pressure?
In this episode of Super U, Erik Qualman sits down with acclaimed actor, director, educator, and acting coach Rob Brownstein, whose decades-long career spans film, television, theater, and commercials—including appearances in Argo, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Straight Outta Compton, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Gilmore Girls, and Young Sheldon.
Rob shares the lessons he’s learned from a career where rejection is inevitable, opportunities can disappear overnight, and you never quite know what will happen when you walk onto a set. He explains why he doesn’t view rejection as rejection at all, how he learned to keep showing up when the pressure was overwhelming, and why sometimes the best thing you can do is let go of trying to control the outcome.
The conversation goes far beyond Hollywood. Rob and Erik explore how professionals can navigate career uncertainty, adapt when the rules change, create their own opportunities, prepare for high-pressure moments, and turn setbacks into opportunities to get better.
Super U Podcast | It’s Your Time: How to Perform Under Pressure with Rob Brownstein
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“When we audition, it’s not their time. It’s not the producers, the directors, cast. It’s our time. It’s my audition. It is my five minutes. So if I have to ask a question, ask a question.
If I have to stop and say, I’m sorry, can I start again? Do it. So if you go in for a job interview, don’t be thinking it’s their time and you don’t want to waste their time. It’s your time.
It is your job interview. You are the person who is going to live with this, however it goes. So, you know, take control of that time.”
LEARN MORE ABOUT ROB BROWNSTEIN
Rob Brownstein is a longtime working actor, teacher, and coach based in Los Angeles. His credits span film, television, theater, commercials, and voiceover, including Argo, Mad Men, The Office, Gilmore Girls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Breaking Bad, Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, Young Sheldon, Straight Outta Compton, Blonde, and Velvet Buzzsaw, among many others. He also appears in Michael, the recent and very popular Michael Jackson biopic, where he plays the burn doctor.
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