If I want to be an actress what must I do?

Question

Im desperate! I really want to be an actress. I've never took acting classes before or anything I want this so bad. All I do in school is daydream of being an actress thats how bad it is. What must I do?! I'm 14 and I'm in my freshmen year in High School. I just need to know the steps I know I can do this. So Dont tell me that I cant! Every celebrity once had a dream too they were all like me so why is my dream any different?! I'm going to be an actress no matter what.

Answer 1

Acting class. Take Speech and acting classes.

Answer 2

There have been some good answers, but there is a vital point that has not been touched on. Grammar. Any serious audition outside of school is going to consist, in part, of a short interview. If there are two candidates for the same role, each of equal (if varying types of) talent, both looking appropriate for the part, a director's decision may hinge on that interview. Subconciously ( according to my source), the assumption is that they have both had comparable educations. If one speaks with a plethora of grammatic errors ("don't got", "i've never took", "haven't did", etc.), then, and the other doesn't, the other will get the job, since it appears that she paid more attention (or at the very least was better able to grasp what she was taught). This will impress the director, since he doesn't want to go over stuff twice and will choose the one who seems best able to get it the first time.
I know that sounds petty and maybe even harsh, and for that I apologize. However, even the tiniest detail can make or break a career, even if the person making or breaking that career isn't even aware they are considering that detail.

Answer 3

1) Participate in Theatre in your school any way they'll let you.

2) Take acting classes - and never stop researching for your craft EVER! Being an actress is like being in school your WHOLE life... Never stop learning.

3) Learn early you will face piles of unjustified and harsh rejection. You think Simon on American Idol is rough... WHEW!!

4) Never Give Up, EVER.

5) Be willing to work harder than you ever imagined.

6) Get work where you encounter the public to support yourself when you are old enough... and NEVER quit going to auditions. I mean - work in restaurants, sales, anything you can get while you are seeking acting work.

7) Save up for professional photos and head shots - they are expensive - and you need good ones to submit to casting directors. (These run between several hundred dollars to thousands of dollars per session.)

8) Get involved in your city/county's regional theatre groups. Do ANYTHING. Learn set design, lighting design, costuming, sewing, painting, set construction, direction, get all the books on theatre you can possibly find.... You need to know the terms! What's stage left and right? What's upstaging a fellow cast member? (No, not acting out...) What's a fernel? What's the house? What's the clouds? What is an Elizabethan set...? Etc., etc., etc.

9) Find out about entertainment attorneys and agents. You need to be wise as a snake when dealing with the money men in the industry - they'll use you and lose you. You MUST have an agent. Never completely trust them... always hope for the best and personally verify the rest.

10) Act for free if it gets you noticed, or gets you in front of talented people you can learn from.

11) Take dance, voice, languages, immerse yourself....

It's a hard road... and it's endless work, study, heartbreak, prayer and luck.

Above all - DECIDE NOW who you are. What are your morals? The industry will try and eat you alive. Be true to you so you never get lost like so many have before you.

I started on that road, and found it wasn't for me.
Perservere, dear one. Love life like a lion and remember, after all the millions of "NO, You're not good enough's" there will be blessed "Yes's" in there for you. Relish every moment.

Answer 4

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