is it 2 late 2 go in2 acting?

Question

I'm 23, I have always thought about being in show biz & I have had my scrapes; dancing: tap dancing & exotic dancing. HOwever, I have always wanted 2 b an acrtess & I'd think I would b good @ it, but where do I start & am I 2 old now?

Answer 1

I would say no, as long as you get some acting classes, and some various regional productions under your belt. you definately have a shot.

Answer 2

It's really never too late. My late mom had some movie bits and community theatre roles at 65 or later....and that is when she started.

Whatever you do, GET TRAINING. There are lots of "wannabes" in theatre. Go to a good acting school and take a couple of years of classes.

I have been acting for more than 50 years and I just signed up for a class with one of the great master teachers (Jean Shelton).

Answer 3

definitely not too late!
i'm not sure where you'd try out in the U.S. if that's where you are, but where I'm from you can audition for roles in plays or musicals, go to a talent agency and sign up, or sign up on one of the online ones like starnow (but check if it's reputable).
I'm 30 and I'm planning to do more acting in the future, they need actors of all ages. You could maybe go to an acting school too if you can fit it in. I did some screen acting, night classes which was really helpful, especially when I watched the video now and see what I need to do to improve!

Answer 4

It's never too late to start acting.
Start by taking acting classes for at least a year.

Answer 5

no i dont think so i am 39 and finally going to go into acting because i have always wanted to....i mean on a large level because i have been doing theater for about 6 years...small theater...so the answer to your question is no you are not too old

Answer 6

Hi Bethea!

The great thing about acting is that you don't have to be beautiful and you don't have to be a certain age. Actors are needed of all types, sizes, ages. Always and forever!

While it's clear that the younger you start, the more chance you have of really having it become part of your dna so to speak, it's never too late.

I personally started just 4 years ago and now I'm 47. I've done voice over work, a couple of films, television, extra work, commercial, commercial print and lots and lots of industrials, which is what I really love doing. In addition, I speak at and host live events and speak at company conventions as well, in which I have a chance to incorporate my acting. I'm having a ball!

I get similar questions to the one you asked almost daily? In fact it is a question that I have seen young actors have over the last four years and together with another question: "How does one get started acting?", it is one that inspired me in a big way to create two resources that I will tell you about in a minute.

It's important to know what it really means to be a working actor. Maybe you already know. I don't have much information about you other than the one sentence you wrote.

Here are some of the issues that actors face before they even get close to working:

*New to show business and just seem to be wallowing around to find out what you should be doing to get started in the right way!

*Not being sent out on many auditions.

*Rarely getting called back.

*No agent and not sure how to get one.

*Not many industry contacts and can’t seem to meet that industry professional I would really like to meet.

*Difficult to balance work and the demands of an acting career.

*Able to book jobs, but not always able to keep them and don't know why.

*Sending out materials—audition tapes, headshots, and résumés—but not getting the types of responses you would like or none at all!

*Don’t have the money to take classes, so just taking a workshop every now and again instead of going to a school or regular classes. It’s been the situation for months. Maybe even years.

*Having difficulty getting off work for auditions, because the boss doesn’t support employees' acting careers!

*Difficult to prepare well for auditions, because of work. Either too tired or just not enough time in the day to work on your acting career!

*Have to work at a club or restaurant or in a job they don't like until the wee hours of the morning and end up going into auditions looking and feeling like a zombie.

*Having to work at a job that robs them of valuable time they could be using to spend on developing their acting career, auditioning or something else.

*Don't have the cash to make a show-reel or audition tape, get headshots.

*Not sure how to choose a headshot photographer!

*"Don't know how on earth it's possible to make a résumé, if I don’t have anything to put on it! How on earth can I start an acting career!"

There are certainly more of these issues, but this is the reality. I certainly don't want to rain on your parade, but rather to help you understand that you need in my opinion four things that will help you get started so that one day you will have a good chance of getting work as an actor.

Knowing that many, many, many young actors and even older ones have the same issues and hearing about them over and over again, and knowing that I had the same issues not long ago, I decided to create a resource for this same group of people. It’s my recently published book: Acting Career Start-Up: Four Key Factors For Success and it can be found on amazon.com and barnesandnobles.com. It takes you through four critical and crucial steps that I consistently see actors overlook and skip, because they’re too impatient and want to jump in right away instead of first creating the base. To find out more about what those four key factors are, I have created a whole page around it with an audio file for you to listen to:
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/start_acting_career.html

I say all this to let you know, something that you already know which is that there will be a lot of things to do before you get there. You will need clarity, motivation, determination, thick skin, a method of planning, business skills and you will need to see how this can actually work with real, working actors.

While you’re at the site, have a look around and go take the actor quiz: http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/actor_quiz.html

After all this, you need to study, study, study. I would advise you to get information about the different techniques that there are and then choose one. Here is some other information that can help you in choosing classes and schools and to learn more about the different techniques there are:
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acting_classes.html
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acting_books.html

One last thing. Don’t disregard all the other types of acting possibilities there are:
Film, television, theater are the obvious ones. There is also hosting, industrials, commercials, commercial print, student films, independent films, spokesperson.

I hope this gives you some insight and I hope to have made you think.

Best of luck!

Tony
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com

Answer 7

It's never too late to do what you love. Always pursue your dreams! Never let anyone tell you otherwise!

Answer 8

Can you still throw-up and starve yourself? If you awnsered yes then its not to late!