If your really interested in acting you should join an acting agency which will target auditions for you. Usually an acting agency is expensive and the acting industry is very competitive. You can find an acting agency by searching in the phone book. Only those who are top actors get a good pay. If you star in small things chances are your pay is going to be really bad.
2007-07-22 21:35:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Four answers so far and three of them stupid. Okay, every day this forum is jam packed with questions from young kids asking how to be famous. You can be an actor if you want. You can be anything you want. A musician, a race car driver, an athlete or anything else. You just can't be a rich and famous one. It's a fantasy like winning the lottery. It happens for one person out of many thousands and you only hear about the successes. If you really love to act or do anything else for that matter you will find a way to do it and not care if you are getting paid. If you want to get into anything especially something that's extremely hard for the money and not for the love of doing it you should find something else to do. First you learn to act. Then you worry about auditions.
2007-07-22 22:08:33
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answered by Big R 6
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The best thing is to look for community theaters in your area. Get yourself an education, if you ever see a touring production you'll see many of the actors have formal training.
And lastly ask yourself, "Am I doing this because I like it or do I just want to be famous?"
Best of luck!
2007-07-22 22:43:41
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answered by pumbaaco 3
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reality TV first and foremost is a great entry point. Easier than a lot of things - that and commercials. You have to move to New York or LA if you aren't there already. Then you can comb through Backstage, Nbc.com/auditions and other sources as well.
2007-07-22 21:54:16
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answered by yo yo dog 2
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Actors take acting classes. Ask your actor friends for the name of acting schools in your city, or call the theater department of the University in your city and ask for names of acting teachers.
2007-07-22 21:57:34
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answered by newyorkgal71 7
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Well you need to be in LA, have a whole time father or mother with transportation. It is helping to have an agent. You want headshot and resume. You have to have $two,500 useful to shop for your union card when you get a role (they'll no longer purchase it for you as a ordinary rule on account that they need to pay fines for hiring you over the two,000 unemployed child actors already in SAG). Until your 18 a father or mother needs to be there fulltime. two hours paintings two hours institution, dinner holiday, two hours paintings, 2 hours institution. Once you flip 18 they paintings you 10-12 hours an afternoon with 2 or 3 dinner breaks. They as a rule signal you to five-7 yr contracts and also you cannot paintings for someone else in the course of that time period. Show cross black as a rule from Thanksgiving to new Years and after April till August and you'll be able to get unemployment in the course of that interval. The relaxation of the time you're employed five days every week till you're 18, after 18 you can also need to paintings saturdays on a few units. After 18 the paintings day is ordinarily 6 am to 6pm and even eight pm, repeatedly til nine pm again at 6 am day after today. Of direction the pay is ordinarily $five,000 - $10,000 every week. Until you're 18 25-50% of that has to enter a believe account. Do recognize ninety% of the union is unemployed among the yr and eighty five% makes lower than $10,000 in line with yr. As for fitting popular, you're taking $three,000 of the $10,000 every week you are making and deliver it to a legitimate PR individual to maintain you within the information. It as a rule takes two-three years of that to get you to the factor in which the clicking may not allow you to BBQ for your garden with out snapping photographs of you frm the hill with lengthy lenses. Once you succeed in that factor you get the Britney syndrome in which the clicking takes photographs of you purchasing donuts, laying at the sand on vaction and creating a bitter face They love to place photographs like that on covers. You will under no circumstances have a personal lifestyles. Your maids will write books Your boyfriends will write books Your fanatics and husbands will take part your earnings away in palamony and divorce settlements. Britney was once the quality factor to ever occur to FedEx, he went from making $500 -- $two,000 every week parttime as a dancer to getting approximately $30 million off of her. And Brit does not have $30 million, so she has to drift a financial institution mortgage to pay him off on account that her cash is available in in dribs and drabs. She will get $one hundred,000 right here and $2 hundred,000 there and made not anything off her final flop of a list. Her divorce is like her residence, mortaged from the financial institution.
2016-09-05 15:56:50
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answered by lozandier 4
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Well you should go to, like, John Robert Powers, John Casablanca, or Barbizon.
2007-07-23 03:02:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Hi,
this statement: "I want to act." and that question: "Where can I audition." should be separated by a space. And that space needs to be filled with two things. Passion for the craft and good, solid training. Before going to audition, you are better off first getting into a good school and studying with a good teacher.
I'll address more in detail the part about being famous.
Some years ago when I played American football in college, we were on the practice field at the end of August right when the new school year started. It was hot and we sweated our butts off! To get to the practice field we had to walk across campus and our college mates were out playing Frisbee. The girls were laying out in the sun. The guys were drinking beer and laughing and having a good time. And what were we doing? We were going to put on our equipment in 95° heat and go out and practice for three hours.
You can imagine that in that kind of heat, practice was hard. Sometimes we wanted to rest or get a drink of water, but we couldn’t. Our coach saw that we were tired and wanted to rest and it was always at those moments in the middle of practice when he would call us all in, tell us to take our helmets off and “take a knee”. He used to tell us a lot of things during those little speeches of his. One thing that he always used to tell us was, “Men, when it’s too hot for the other teams, it will be just right for us.” Something else that he used to tell us was, “Men, if you’re out here practicing in this menacing heat, you gotta love it.”
First and foremost you gotta love acting or singing or whatever you want to do. If the reason you are doing it is to become famous, then I would strongly advise you to seek out some other field. I know that this and the other answers you received might be difficult to digest, but it’s all good advice.
Your first priority as an actor, should be to learn the craft and try to be as good as you can be.
Another time, when I was in college in my sophomore year, I was trying to decide what to major in. What I really loved was languages, but I thought that I should really major in business administration, because that’s where the money would be, but I didn't like it enough to make it my major. I talked to a professor in whom I could confide and told him that I was undecided. He told me to do first and foremost what I was most passionate about and be as good at it as I possibly can at it. He told me that if I did that, then the money would come and fame too, if that’s what you want.. He said that one day I would be thankful that I chose to do something that I really love to do. And you know what? He was right.
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 what you wrote.
Because many questions come up like yours and about how to get started as an actor, I have created a 36-page ebooklet that you can download at my website that will take you through some initial steps you will want to take to get a good, solid start to your career.
Among other things, you will see a list of about 15 issues that actors face at sometime during their career and there are certainly more, but this my friend 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 and then MAYBE get to be famous.
Just go to http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acs-blog.html , sign in and you can download it for free.
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 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. For actors who think they have their priorities in order, but believe that the real goal is something other than to be a brilliant actor, to be the best actor they can be.
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 of what you really want and for you, why being famous is so important to you, motivation, determination, thick skin, a method of planning, business skills and you will need to see how these things can actually bring success when you interact and hear the stories of other actors, working actors.
Click on this link below and take the actor quiz. It will help you to see some of the things you know or that you need to know about your up-coming acting career: 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
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. They can help you to get your feet wet and help you get started.
Community theater, extra work, student films and commercial print work can all help you to get your feet wet, while you’re studying.
I hope this gives you some insight and I hope to have made you think. Unless you get lucky, becoming famous can be several years out, if it ever happens at all. Statistics say that it probably won't. If you are an exceptional person, then you can make it happen, but will come with a price and sacrifice.
One last little lesson I learned that I would like to share with you. When I first started acting, my teacher told me that it was probably my football and military training that taught me that I had to strive for the goal and that I achieve my goal, when I reach my objective. She told me that acting is not like that at all. She told me that it is not about “nailing” a scene, but rather about living each and every moment of the scene. That’s what makes it more real. We have to be “in the moment”. It’s not about the final destination of becoming famous. It’s about doing something you really love and enjoying your development and your experiences along the way.
Study, learn, be the best actor that you can be and enjoy it; each and every moment of it. If you become famous, I’ll be happy for you. If you don’t, be happy for yourself that you did something that you really loved and enjoyed. If you don't think you can do that, then you might want to think again about what it is you really want.
Best of luck!
Tony
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com
2007-07-23 04:55:14
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answered by Anonymous
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u can audition here in my garage for my movie "aim and insert"
2007-07-22 21:31:37
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answered by Anonymous
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