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How do I get into acting?

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Some brief thoughts about your question: If you are still in school, take drama classes and audition for school plays. If you are no longer in school, still, try to take some lessons. You want to hear criticism about how you act without folding under emotionally. Save your money for the time in which (if you want to earn a living at this) you may wish to move to Los Angeles. Hang out at you local community theatre. Watch actors audition, rehearse, and see plays. Talk to local actors about how they got started in the town or city in which you live. Call your local film office (nearly every state and many major cities have them) and see what films may be shot in your area. Try to become an extra in a film. Watch, listen, and learn from those who have careers in acting.Read as much as you can about acting technique. Memorize scenes. Get headshots made.Forget about becoming a "star." ALWAYS be professional on a set or a stage. The world doesn’t need another outlandish ego to deal with so don’t use acting as a means of trying to appear better than others.Acting is an art, a job, a means of communicating with the world, it can be a process of self discovery.It requires work. If you are not willing to work or risk failure then its not for you. These are just a few very basic thoughts. There is more but those you will learn about either via others on the Net or, and better still, through experience of your own. So, if you want to act, jump in. You will never know what you can or cannot do until you try. It’s better to know that acting isn’t for you than to daydream and never start. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How do I get into acting?

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Thank you, thank_you (sorry…couldn’t resist), but I think Robbie’s from Germany. — Carl Many are called. Few are lederhosened. – CASalonen – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Some brief thoughts about your question: If you are still in school, take drama classes and audition for school plays. If you are no longer in school, still, try to take some lessons. You want to hear criticism about how you act without folding under emotionally. Save your money for the time in which (if you want to earn a living at this) you may wish to move to Los Angeles. Hang out at you local community theatre. Watch actors audition, rehearse, and see plays. Talk to local actors about how they got started in the town or city in which you live. Call your local film office (nearly every state and many major cities have them) and see what films may be shot in your area. Try to become an extra in a film. Watch, listen, and learn from those who have careers in acting.Read as much as you can about acting technique. Memorize scenes. Get headshots made.Forget about becoming a "star." ALWAYS be professional on a set or a stage. The world doesn’t need another outlandish ego to deal with so don’t use acting as a means of trying to appear better than others.Acting is an art, a job, a means of communicating with the world, it can be a process of self discovery.It requires work. If you are not willing to work or risk failure then its not for you. These are just a few very basic thoughts. There is more but those you will learn about either via others on the Net or, and better still, through experience of your own. So, if you want to act, jump in. You will never know what you can or cannot do until you try. It’s better to know that acting isn’t for you than to daydream and never start. How do I get into acting?

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How do I get into acting?

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How do I get into acting?

Turn left and writing, go past stage-management, then take a quick right at waiting tables. You can’t miss it. –bubbles

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There already is "i" in acting. Seriously, Robbie, you need to give us a little more information about what you want to know, like who/what/when/where/and most importantly, why you want to get into this crazy business where your chances of making a decent living in it are slightly lower than being killed in a terrorist attack in the Sudan…without leaving your living room. Or is it "slightly higher"? I can never remember the study that determined that statistic…. — Carl So long, Doug, and thanks for all the fish! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How do I get into acting?

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