How To Start Your Acting Career

Step 1

Four years ago, I did extra work for a movie that was shooting in Columbus, Ohio, Traffic with Michael Douglas. Before that, all I had done was go to movies, rent them on disc or VHS. Behind the scenes, everything I experienced, did on camera, just blew my hair back. I was amazed, like this was so much fun. I finished school, I had some other options, but one thing from that experience that I took away was that would be a great industry to be in. You see celebrities everywhere doing this, that and the other thing, blah, blah, blah. and that is stuff that you get eventually, maybe, hopefully, whatever. So, I decided to give it a shot. because, you know what? I don't want to say the rest of my life, I could have, would have, should have type of thing.

Step 2

Having said that, acting is unlike any other industry there is. It is not even like modeling. Because modeling, eventually you can't model anymore. But, you can act the rest of your life.

Step 3

The one thing about acting, it is a selective career. Nobody is forced into acting. Its not like you went to law school and you have to become a lawyer because you have to pay your bills. Or you went to medical school, or you went to undergrad or you didn't finish school and you are working some dead broke job.

Step 4

Everyone that is in the business wants to be there. And that's why when you go to auditions, everyone's working their ass off, they are busting their ass off, and behind the scenes, when they are not in an audition, when they are not shooting something, when they are not working, they are busting their ass, they are reading books, they are working on their technique, memorizing lines. They are doing whatever they have to do to make sure that when they are ready, when they have someone - a casting agent's, a casting producer's attention for that three minutes, that they give them the best thing.

Step 5

And a lot of this stuff you have obviously do not know until you are experience it, but when you are sitting there, and you have ten peoples' attention, solely attention on you for three minutes: a writer, a director, producer, casting agent, the guys that front the money for this project you are about to do, its hot stuff. It builds this fire inside of you and that's why so many people want to get into acting however, they don't know it until they do it.