How to Become an Actor?

Question

What are some ways to become a celebrity actor. Also, if there are any commercial or movie auditions in Toronto please tell me what it is about and some contact information: address, phone, etc.

Thank You

I was in a play once, i was kind of good. Also, i mean movie acting, not theatre. For example, Disney shows like Corey in the House and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

Btw. Im 14

Answer 1

Actor? Sure. Celebrity actor? lol

No one has much control, if any, over whether or not they become a celebrity.

I know very bright and talented actors that have gone "all the way" with school. Yale then off to Juliard for a masters, just as an example. These folks will likely be able to support themselves without having to wait tables. The rest will have to learn to live with dissapointment, survive on little or no money, have lots of roommates, etc.

The good old days of "being discovered" and " I'm going to make you a star" are long gone. You'll have to work harder than you ever imagined and fight for everything you get.

I don't mean to rain on your parade, just open your eyes a little bit. It can be a rewarding career choice and in many respects you will never meet a greater group of people.

Break a leg!

Answer 2

Uhmmm sweetie noooooo. You don't just get to go be in a show because you were in a play once. It takes years of practicing, and plus you need an agent, a headshot, and much more on your resume than just : One play-I was kinda good.
Forget those shows until you cover the basics. Get an agent (person that finds auditions for you, and gets you in). Get a headshot (a PROFESSIONAL pic of the shoulders up) Get a resume. (A real one-@ least 10-20 things)
THEN we will talk.

Answer 3

stop asking stupid questions like this and start searching on the internet for acting opportunities u lazy bum.

Answer 4

Allow me to introduce you to becoming an actor.

1) "Welcome to acting school"
2) "Welcome to the diner/cafe, may I take your order?"
3) "I give up acting school never works"
4) "Oh my God you're Peter Jackson"
5) "Yes I'm avaliable, what do you mean you don't care about me"
6) "Screw it I'll just go to the auditions"

Answer 5

How to Become an Actor
The best place to learn to act is on stage while performing in a production for a real audience. There is no substitute for stage experience. You can rehearse or do acting exercises until you're blue in the face, but until you do it in front of an audience, you're not really acting.

"The audience will teach you how to act," says David Mamet in his controversial book True and False -- Heresy and Common Sense. "If you want to be in the theatre, go into the theatre," Mamet urges. And Mamet should know, he's a Pulitzer-Prize-winning play writer and the director of the Academy-Award-nominated script The Verdict.

True and False is a controversial book because, in it, Mamet has the audacity to make a sustained attack on Method Acting, one of the most popular American acting techniques of the 20th century, not to mention his attack on virtually all other schools of acting. "Formal education for the player is not only useless, but hurtful," says Mamet, "It stresses the academic model and denies the primacy of the interchange with the audience."

Anthony Hopkins praised True And False as "demolishing the myths and the psychobabble-gobbledygook that pass for theory with regard to acting," and he described it as "a revealing book of the highest order."

Certainly students need a place to practice acting. And that place is the stage, asserts Mamet. Acting schools tend to teach the actor to be safe, political, and polite. "Let me be impolite," Mamet says, "most teachers of acting are frauds, and their schools offer nothing other than the right to consider oneself part of the theatre."

Mamet stresses that to participate in the real theater, one should seek to please the audience and the audience only. "The opinions of teachers and peers is skewed, and too much time spent earning their good opinion unfits one for life upon the stage," he says.

Debunking the method acting myth is a big part of his book. Method acting is the infamous technique where an actor draws on his or her own emotions, memories, and experiences to influence their portrayal of a character.

"Nothing in the world is less interesting than an actor on the stage involved in his or her own emotions," says Mamet in undeniable dig. "It's as useless as teaching pilots to flap their arms while in the cockpit in order to increase the lift of the plane," says Mamet.

In this metaphor, the play is the plane, and the actor flies the plane by simply saying the words in the script in an unaffected way with the basic intent that the play write has dictated in the text. There is no need for the actor to flap his or her arms.

"Acting is not a genteel profession," he reminds the reader, "Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment." Mamet return to these sorts of historical low-brow references, likening actors to street buskers and vaudevillians. He sees show business to a depraved carnival that attracts the dedicated honest actor just as it attracts the exploitative and parasites.

By parasites, he's talking about the professors, teachers, agents, casting agents, critics, the producers as well as other, even less savory, characters.

In another simplification, Mamet claims that all an actor needs is "a strong voice, superb diction, a supple, well-proportioned body, and a rudimentary understanding of the play." It sounds so simple. "The actor is onstage to communicate the play to the audience. That's the beginning and the end of it."

So this is the foundation of legitimate acting training? "Speak up, speak clearly." Even though it sounds simple, he warns that it isn't easy.

"It's courageous and requires a courage of the order that the institutionally co-opted are ill equipped to perceive," says Mamet. The 'institutionally co-opted' are those people who are wrapped up in acting schools, who say they want to act, who think they want to act, but who actually want to study acting. "The actor creates excuses not to act and attributes her reluctance to everything in the world except the actual cause."

But the message of the book is empowering to actors. "If you like the theatre and the life of the theatre, participate in it."

He urges actors to strike out on their own instead of going to school. "It's more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films." The book, at times, seems to be shocking for shocking's sake -- to slap the reader out of a rut with phrases like "Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school." It is definitely a powerful way to think about it. If you want to act -- act. It's as simple as that.

Answer 6

Learn to lie...very well.