I want to be a actor really bad!!Where do I start?

Question

I just turned 20,am a male and have been wanting to be a actor for a while now.But where do I start? I have no acting or drama class experience at all.I was thinking about going to a community college for acting.What college classes should I take for acting?Am sometime shy at times to.Should I take a speech or english class at well?

Answer 1

Enrol in drama classes. Also, is there a local theatre or drama group that you can join. You may need to do non-acting jobs initially until you improve your acting skills.

Answer 2

Only one place to start. You have to find out if you have any ability to act, so you have to try out for a community theatre play and see if anyone thinks you are good enough to do a good role. May take a few tries, so keep at it?  Why waste time and money on classes if you don't know if you stink or not?

Answer 3

Take acting classes, that would be the biggest help you can get to start your career off.

Take drama class in your collage, that help you too.

When you get better, audition in your local area for plays, shows, commercials, whatever is available so you can see just where you stand,

if you're really good and get noticed doing that, your career could really do you good.

As far as the being shy thing, it's normal and you will get use to what you are doing as an actor you learn to develope confidence in your work, and just know that you are that good and prove to others you are, that will really get you noticed.

I mean at first you will be kinda scared to get up on stage, but after a few times, and experience later, you will feel so confortable with it, and it will go away when you're passionate about your work.

I was just like that in the beginning, but I learned so much from taking drama class in high school, and I feel as though I learned a lot, and I think you will too.

Just keep trying your best, and with time you will get better, you just have to be patient,

and GOOD LUCK, I really hope you do what you love.

Answer 4

you can look for casting calls here: hollywood-opportunities(dotcom)

Answer 5

If you could minor or major in drama that would be a great start. Couple that with a really good school, like NYU or Juilliard that would be great. BUT you really need to be committed. Speech class will help you if you have particular difficulties with your diction, but I would say that while it is important, it is not a priority at this point.

Having said that, 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 6

go take some acting classes. a course, not necessarily an actors' faculty. see how well you're doing in there, how much you like it. make sure you get a diploma at the end as well. then ask your instructor for more info, as well as for an appreciation of your talent.

good luck.