I wanna be an actor ?

Question

hi everybody, i am 17,5 and i wanna b an actor and i don't know what to do or where to start , and i wanna know if there is something that ould help me develope

my talent so please anything coulde help

plus i am from algeria and i dreame of hollywood CA ;)

Answer 1

Search online. thats the best way

Answer 2

You want to be an actor?

Then you have to go act.

Get experience through community theater and school productions.

To do professional things on film and such you generally need an agent. An agent will find you auditions for movies, commercials, theater or whatever else. There are a lot of agencies out there that just want to scam you though so you have to watch out.

If you feel you're ready and experienced enough get a headshot and put together a resume and send it off to a legit agent.

SAG.com has legit ones.

(screen actors guild)

Answer 3

As I have in other questions, I agree in part with Tony, however I have a question for you. Are you IN Algeria, or here in the states? If you happen to be in Algeria, you might have as much opportunity in "Bollywood"

   If you look through Q & A, you can, as suggested, see this question asked a thousand or more times a week, even from those as young as age 10.

   In the USA, the stats for 2008 indicate an avg. scale of a working actor is just under $49K. The Millionaires club could be counted on two hands, while the balance could fill several metro phone books.

   Education in the crafts might help to a degree, but experience, and gaining valid credentials is what anyone casting, looks for.

   Explore your dream certainly, but along the way, also learn tolerance, acceptance, some modest levels of compromise that won't degrade you, and those bits of education might be especially relevant to endure any rejections.

Answer 4

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, you will position yourself ahead of your competition.

On the other hand if all you ever aspire to is to work background work 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 5

If your school offers acting, take classes. If not find a place near you that does possibly a dance studio. Just call around also its a good idea to take vioce and dance too. Its good to have all three talents under your belt.