How do I get into acting?

Question

I am from Oklahoma so I can't seem to find any way. Do I have to go to Los Angeles?

Answer 1

No, LA is for people who want to get ahead of themselves and think that they out of 1 billion people are more better actors then the rest, and then go bankrupt without rtaking the small steps up to LA. First I would get into a theatre group for starters. Maybe a near by training acting school for teens or adults.
After perhaps 3 theatre productions I would get my resume together! During your theatre productions, I would do training for acting in your spare time. Once you get experience ( or if you already got one) Go to some acting sites.

www.mandy.com or exploretalent.com
FREE SIGN UP and find short films ( most are non payed but good experience ) once you get around 10 of the free payed films, During this time I would go on the internet and try to find an Agent to repersent you. Go for background work and then sign up for primary agent ( talking roles in movies)
Then you get a step closer as you are training and in theatre productions, and doing short films, with an agent getting you more jobs WITH PAY you are rolling already!

DONT FORGET TO PUT RESUMES TOGETHER!
After you are in the buisness with a FANTASTIC RESUME then if ya liek to move to LA and get your agent to get an AGENT ALREADY ASIGNED TO YOU THERE!
And you will become famous!

*TIP: Get singing lessons as you are doing this, and try Amercian Idol, and then try to get top 10. ( Almost impossible but good for the camera and people will see ya and you WILL get acting jobs.)

Good luck. There are BILLIONS of ways to get into acting, I only showed you two!.

It is your job to find the other 999 999 998 ways, and you will get far!

See you on the RED CARPET!

Answer 2

Hi,

first start taking classes and find out what it is really like to be an actor, working the beat and trying to get work.

I wouldn't go to LA yet. While taking classes, I recommend you do two things:
1) try and learn as much about the industry and the profession of being an actor as you can. Study the industry. For that I have a lot of things on my website for new actors that you can have a look at and it's free. Such as:
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acting_industry_information.html
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/working_as_an_actor.html
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/how_to_get_an_agent.html

and I also have a free ebook that you can download called: What It Takes To Become An Actor, that you might find useful. Just go to http://www.actingcareerstartup.com , sign in and you can download it for free.

You can also check the blog regularly. I try and put some good information that young actors need.

Hope that helps!

Tony
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acs-blog.html

Answer 3

No and you shouldn't even be thinking about it yet. You need to build experience, lots and lots of it in school and church and community plays? You need to read all the plays you can get your hands on and read books about acting. In three or four years, when you have done all this come back to this forum if you haven't learned what to do next.