I want to be an actor on tv, but have no experieance, what now?

Question

I have no acting experiance, but am an aspiring actor. I also get stage fright easily what do i do!???

Answer 1

Stop being flaky. Go back to school.

Answer 2

OK, WELL... YOU'LL GET USED TO NOT BEING STAGE FRIGHT. I WAS THE LEAD ROLES IN A LOT OF PLAYS AND DID TWO COMMERCIALS: A FRUIT ROLLOP ONE AND AN ABERCROMBIE ONE. LIKKE I SAID, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE STAGE FRIGHT THING. A LOT OF TIMES WHEN II WAS ON STAGE, I GOT NERVOUS, BUT IN COMMERCIALS, NO ONE WATCHES U EXCEPT THE DIRECTOR, THE CAMERA GUY, U WON'T HAVE AN AUDIENCE AND ALL U DO IS THAY'LL ASK U TO SLATE (WHICH IS JUST SHOWING THEM UR BODY PROFILE) AND THEN THEY'LL SAY THANK U AND U LEAVE AND MAYBE THEY WILL CALL U BACK A AY-A MONTH LATER AND THEN U COME BACK AND SAY THE LINES. NOTHING TO BE NERVOUS ABOUT. BUT, BEFORE U JUST AUDITION FOR A PART, U NEED HEADSHOTS AND THE GIVE THEM TO AN AGENT AND IF HE LIKES UR PIC. THEN UR AGENT WILL EMAIL U AND TELL THAT U NEED TO GO IN TO LIKE WHERE UU AUDITION AND HE OR SHE WILL GIVE U THE ADDRESS AND EVERYTHING!!

Answer 3

Hi,

If you do a search here on answers you will see other answers to this question, as it comes up usually a couple of times each day. I answer this question a lot and so instead of writing the same or similar answers over and over again, I have created a 28-page ebooklet that answers pretty thoroughly your question. Just go to http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acs-blog.html , sign in on the right side of the page and you can download it for free. It's called: What It Takes To Become An Actor.

With regard to stage fright:

You definitely have to believe in yourself. But I realize it’s easier to say than to do, so I will try and explain it to you better.

What's really important is that you first of all are as well prepared as you possibly can be. Practice and make sure you know your stuff!. Practice. Practice. Practice. That alone will help you to feel more confident.

There is something else that your drama classes and your teacher can help you with and that is a concept called ‘public solitude.’ If you can, take a GOOD acting class. (If you are an actor, you should be taking regular classes anyway.) They will teach you that. You learn how to develop public solitude, which is really feeling comfortable in any situation and being able to block out everything around you and focus solely on ‘being’ the character you are interpreting and on your scene partner. The exercise and acting classes in general will help you to feel more comfortable in front of people while performing.

Something else that is crucial is that you need to focus on what you want and not on what you don't want. You need to focus your mind on what being focused and comfortable in your scene will be like and not on the things you are afraid will happen if you mess up.
Why? What will that do for you? Let me give you an example.

If I tell you right now, "Don't think about a yellow elephant! Don't think about it!"

What's the first thing that comes into your mind?

You don't have to tell me, because I already know. It's the yellow elephant isn't it? Why is that? Because that's how the human brain works. That's how your brain works. In order to forget something, our brain first has to understand what it is supposed to forget. How does it do that? By first bringing it to the forefront and creating an image around it.

So what does that have to do with your feeling comfortable while speaking? Everything!

If you tell yourself before you go into the audition or during any performance itself things like; "I hope I don't mess up. I hope I don't get nervous. I hope I don't forget anything. I hope I don't freeze in front of the group.", you are putting yourself in a position to think about what you don't want. Your imagination will go there and recreate that image of all those negative things you keep telling yourself. Your focus is on the wrong things!

So now you know what you have to do? What kinds of things will you tell yourself the next time you go into a performance or an audition? Positive things! Good things! You will give a great performance! You will be very comfortable in front of your audience! See yourself doing that. If you have to, close your eyes, BREATHE deeply before you go in and visualize yourself being brilliant. How confident will you be while you are performing? You know your lines. You know what you have to do. You are in the character. You feel it! You can see that you feel what you are acting! You are confident and you will be brilliant!

When you talk like that to yourself, you will feel your posture change. You will be erect and your shoulders will be back if you really feel it and if you really believe it. So BE confident and FEEL confident and you will BE the best that you can be.

And breathe!

Hope this helps!

Tony
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http://www.actingcareerstartup.com

Answer 4

Why don't you try something else. You've never really done anything and you're scared to try. Acting isn't for you. Your also making the assumption that you will be good enough to do this professionally. Most people never get that good. Being a famous actor is a childish dream. Pick something that you may actually be able to do.

Answer 5

take acting classes in your school and like that your gonna lose your frightness. caz a good actor never o maybe a lil gets nervous or something but not scare. if you get scare a lil I think this is not for you. I was like that b4 taking theater classes at my school and it really helped me and now I am very confident. I love acting and I don't get scare anymore just a lil nervous

Answer 6

Hey! never EVER (yes that means NEVER) give up your dreams. Do you think Emma Watson (Hermoine) and Rupert Grint (Ron) had experience when they first started? if the answer is yes your wrong.
They both only participated in minor school plays before they auditioned for Harry Potter and started to get more experience when they did workshops for Harry Potter.

My suggestion to you is, go get drama lessons or go join a drama club and there, you will get more experience in acting

Good luck in the future! (to be honest my dream is a Hollywood actor too )

Answer 7

Take some acting classes.

Also, for you stage fright, you can take some Speech classes to help you get comfortable infront of a large audience.

Answer 8

Well you need to take a few acting courses at school, maybe hang around small theater, help out for free, audition for all the plays, watch them work.

Then when you're ready try local TV.

Answer 9

Try acting in some bit parts for a school theatre production.

Answer 10

forget about being an actor and learned something else that you don't have to act or go on stage..... make your life simpler and know what you can do and cannot do!

Answer 11

Take acting lessons for the next few years.