I am a 13 year old male who wants to start acting.?

Question

I always wanted to be an actor. I could have been one along time ago but my mom thought they were scaming her. I am in school plays. ANY ADVICE

Answer 1

thats good that you are in school plays. you just have to take acting one step at a time. you might wanna get into some acting classes which will teach everything you need to know about acting. then when you audition for roles try smaller roles at first then when you get used to acting and doing those parts go for the bigger parts.

Answer 2

This question is asked so much here on answers, that all you really need to do is do a search for the question and you will find tons and tons of answers to your question.

Have a look at this answer that I gave to another actor in the past couple of days.

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You are so not alone. You would be surprised (or maybe not) at how many young people say almost the exact same things in the same way. Sometimes I'm torn between telling them to start by getting some training and telling them to just go get a head shot and go to some casting website and start submitting. But reason wins over me and I have to tell you that if you really want to be an actor, you should first put your big rush to do it to the side and slow down. Build your base first. The competition is fierce and if you don’t prepare yourself really well, you will become just another statistic of the many who WANTED TO, but never made it.

I even created a new video on my site on the exact same topic: The reasons why most aspiring actors never make it.

You might have heard in school when you talked about Abraham Lincoln, that he is the author of a famous quote. He said, "If I had three hours to chop down a tree, I would use the first hour to sharpen the axe."

If you don't sharpen your axe first, there will inevitably be a time when you will have to stop chopping and sharpen it, so you might as well do it now.

What does that mean? Get some acting training. Find a good school and a good teacher to help you learn how to act.

While you are doing that, try and understand what it really means to be an actor, what actors do...really while they are trying to get work, how little money most actors make, why actors struggle to make ends meet and how successful actors are able to continuously get work. You need to learn business skills, networking skills, communication skills and a lot more.

When you decide to become an actor, you are making a decision to run your own business. Now I know you are young, but if you can start to grasp these concepts now, WITH THE HELP OF YOUR PARENTS of course, you will position yourself ahead of your competition.

On the other hand if all you ever aspire to is to work background work on Disney Channel or something like that, then don't worry too much about all that stuff I just said and just go and try and get extra work. That's fairly easy to get considering that the majority of all acting work is background work and smaller roles. But you have to know that if you really want to make a big splash as an actor, sooner or later you will need some real experience. Extra work is great in my opinion at the very beginning just to start and see how things are on set and how real actors prepare and perform and to see how set directions are given, but it will not make your career. In fact, some industry professionals discourage it for those who really want to pursue a serious acting career.

The thing is, you can do both if you want. You can go to school, take acting classes and still work as an extra while you are learning the craft.

At any rate, have a look at this page on my website for aspiring actors. It has 23 links to pages that have to do with starting your acting career.

You'll find a lot of helpful information there that will make you think about how you can get your acting career started including steps to get started, 17 things you can do fairly soon to start getting work, ways to promote yourself, how to get the money together to fund your career, how to get an agent, 29 ways to promote yourself to get noticed and why acting school is so important. http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/teen_...

Good luck!

Tony

Answer 3

Think of the acting world as a ladder. You have to go one step at a time. Each step, by the way, is a combination of your performances and your skill. The more steps you take, the higher you go, but if you try and skip a few steps you might just fall of that metaphorical ladder. At your age you're on the right track with school plays, and you can even go out to local theatre groups. I started in local theatre when I was 12. If you think you're ready, take the next step and keep going until you're at the top.

Answer 4

look for small roles first.  this site should help you out: hollywood-opportunities(dotcom)