How do you become an actor.?

Question

I am a good actor but I never know what to do this that. It is so weird.

Answer 1

There are rules and there are no rules.

To TRY and be an actor you have to follow all three of the first answers as they are correct. Auditioning is about "reading sides." You are handed a page or two of script, given 10 minutes and then do it on stage in front of the casting people. Generally the casting director or a producer will take the other part or you have a monologue.

Having a resume of successes helps.

You need pictures to hand out.

ON the other hand, the director/producer/casting director of a feature film once went to the best high school in Los Angeles, located in one of the worst parts of town and held open auditions for the students and they picked Leonardo di Caprio and the rest is history. A friend of mine went to school with "Leo" and knew him. He was only like 16 at the time and I doubt he had much theater experience.

It's a strange business.

Another friend of a friend is Icon Angelyne and she got backing and had pictures taken and bought a billboard on Sunset Blvd that stayed up for years and after a while the industry started giving her walk ons and occasional bit parts, but she's no Leonardo in the success department!

Another friend of mine is a bread and butter actor named Frank Birney and he works a few times a year, making a bare living wage (you know, a Wal Mart type wage) and he does small parts. He co-starred with another friend of mine, Golden Globe nominee Anita Skinner, in an afterschool special called "Think ABout IT" which is the biggest thing he did. Otherwise I see him in movies like Dave, in which he was one of the Cabinet members and had two or three lines with Kevin Kleine durring the "lets cut the budget" meeting.

He had a fair size role in "Pray TV."

He gets most of his work through an agent. He's been working regularly in Show Biz for 30 or 40 years.

By now he gets a fair amount of residudals and he works several times a year.

Another person I know is Laurette Spang who was a Universal contract actor for years, getting profile shots 40 feet away with a single word line in one of the many Airport movies and graduated to TV as CAssiopia in the original Battle Star Gallactica. To this day she does autographs in the stores she shops in for long time fans. Had she stayed in show biz full time she'd probalby have her own show by now (maybe two), but instead she retired, became a mother and let's her voice over and character actor husband do all the work (except when their agent twists arms for them to both go to Hawaii and do a Magnum).

Answer 2

Practice, practice and more practice. You will find that just about all actors today started to get interested in theater either in high school or college.
To be an actor you must practice the craft. A good place to start is in school or in a community theater group---you usually have to start playing the small or walk-on parts. As you observe others and work with others and learn the specifics of creating a character you will improve.
Its hard to become a great actor--look at the British actors. Most of them started on the stage, learning their craft from the bottom up. That is why they are considered by many to be the greatest actors in the world. Laurence Olivier, John Guielgud, Vivien Leigh and now the new generation - Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, Judy Dench - just to name a few.
It takes work, dedication and a thick skin - anyone who has a fear of rejection just won't make it as an actor!

Answer 3

Call the Community Theaters in your city and ask if you can volunteer at the theater. You will learn a lot.

If you are in school, join the drama department. You will get a basic understanding of what it takes to be an actor.

When you graduate from high school, and, if you still like theater, go to college and major in theate, and later, perhaps, get an MFA (Master of Fine Arts in Theater.)

Good luck.

Answer 4

Read "Breaking into Acting for Dummies" it's a really good book for people who have no idea.

Also, you need to get as much experience as you can, audition for everything: community theater, school productions, church etc.

Answer 5

If you're in school talk to your Drama coach, or contact schools for the arts. You can also do a websearch for agencies and get advice from them. Go to casting calls. Good luck!

Answer 6

Move to California, get an agent, maybe attend some acting classes, start going to auditions.

Answer 7

Decide what kind of acting you want to do (stage, film, television, etc...) and take classes. Ask your teachers for ideas about where to audition and how to further your career. Good luck!

Answer 8

first, you look in the yellow pages!
then you find a management company to get you on commmecials, and little parts in tv shows. then, that will take you to something better!

ive done it. i am a girl on the suite life of zack and cody ON DISNEY CHANNEL! yay me!!! know who i am? just guess.....acautaully i am not a star but i am still on a show!

Answer 9

You major in theater/ acting in college. It's as simple and hard as that

Answer 10

just fake it!