What should I do to become an actor?

Question

Need help!

Answer 1

Than be an actor. There are no special qualifications, certificates, degrees — if you want to be an actor than be one. It's as simple as that.

Read books, Uta Hagen, Stanislavsky, many others.

Takes classes — whatever is available, immerse yourself.

Go on auditions — again, whatever is available. Especially if they are non-paying ones. Depending on where you are located this can be less or more difficult. It doesn't matter if you get the part, you will be LEARNING and thickening up your skin (actors must cope with rejection all the time and it's critical to find ways of self-satisfaction and confidence that DO NOT come from others but from the self).

Study people — sit in parks, buy a notebook dedicated to this and make notes, what makes the woman who is walking her dog tic? If you were playing this scene, how would you be this woman. What if the woman was on her way to meet somebody? How would she behave differently?

The key is to NOT be an actor — some of the worst actors are actors. That is the main problem and many of them, in my mind, are hopeless. Learn about people — all kinds, how there actions reflect their emotions, how their emotions affect their actions — to be a person, any person is to be an actor. That is your goal.

Good luck to you.

Answer 2

Study people. Just watch. Sit down anywhere when you have a minute or an hour, and watch the world go by. Look at that old man with the limp and try to imagine what brought him to that, how he thinks about it, what it feels like to move. The woman with the stroller and a toddler at her side, think about who she is, what she does every day, how she thinks and reacts. Who is that hoodlum, the man in the suit, the child dancing alone in the sunny park? Read and define them for your own edification. An actor distills human experience and makes it into a heady liquor of their skills and their understanding of human nature, in the context of the material they're working with.

Read books, the classics, they've endured for a reason. Study books on body language and psychology. Watch old movies: silents with Lilian Gish, Bette Davis in The Little Foxes, Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter, William Holden in Sunset Boulevard, etc., etc., etc.. More modern real life stories: In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter, The Killing Fields. Documentaries on WW1 and II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, farming, dance, other cultures, Gandhi, The Dalai Lama. Become a lens and let the light of being pass into and through you.

Devour the world and filter it back out through your performance and understanding. No one can teach you how to act, they can only help you refine what's already there - a passion in you to understand and express the human condition in your art. Break
a leg! ;)

Answer 3

Find a good agency. Check the newspapers. But make sure they don't charge you a lot - the people that charge a lot are usually trying to rip you off. Then you'll have to audition for them, and if they decide you're a decent actor, they'll tell you that you need headshots and a resume, etc... usually they point you to someone who can take your headshots (this shouldn't cost too much either). Then from there, the agency takes care of it. They send out your headshots and resume, and if those film-makers think that there is a chance at you fitting a part they need, they will contact you.

Answer 4

Take acting lessons for the next 10 years. After that audition for plays at the Community Theater in the city where you live.

Answer 5

start making people believing you on anything you say....make someone believe that donkeys can fly! if you can do that you can be a good actor

Answer 6

Give auditions!