Acting and actor future question?

Question:I wanna be an actor. but i dont really enjoy theater that well
i mean i think i would love tv acting with more serious roles but right now im in draama at school and im not really enjoying it, i mean i am not too happy with some of the lines and im not really happy about how the script was written. I think I would be more happy playing a role that was more serious and something I can relate too. So my question is... do I have a future in acting? I mean dont all actors love broadway and will do any gig they can? I dont enjoy scripts I cant relate too or parts that are too unrealistic ( like an evil villian ). so am I just blowing this off and making excuses just to call myself an actor? Do I have a future? Am I a real actor?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I wanna be an actor. but i dont really enjoy theater that well
i mean i think i would love tv acting with more serious roles but right now im in draama at school and im not really enjoying it, i mean i am not too happy with some of the lines and im not really happy about how the script was written. I think I would be more happy playing a role that was more serious and something I can relate too. So my question is... do I have a future in acting? I mean dont all actors love broadway and will do any gig they can? I dont enjoy scripts I cant relate too or parts that are too unrealistic ( like an evil villian ). so am I just blowing this off and making excuses just to call myself an actor? Do I have a future? Am I a real actor?

if you want to be an actor, you go for it. and sometimes you have to play parts that won't relate to you, like jim carrey when he did the grinch. he is not a mean person

I'm no professional actor, but I don't think it's imortant to LIKE your role to do well at it and keep more roles coming. I do think it's essential to be able to relate to your role. Without that, you're not acting, you're simply reciting.

If you're acting in a play, you're part of a team. Other people are counting on you. How much you like or dislike the script is irrelevant. What matters is that you live up to your responsibilities and do your job as best you can. If you do that, you're a real actor. And however awful you think this play is, you can learn things from the experience that you'll use later in shows you like better.

It would help if we knew more about the play. If it is a standard fare script, that is a former Broadway or off-Broadway hit by a known playwright, then your attitude is unfounded and we can conclude that you are no actor. However if this script is a piece of junk that is a low-budget high school play or an original written by the students, then your attitude toward it may be justified.
Saying you cannot relate to a part is a bunch of garbage because it is the actor's job to find the relationship between himself and his role. If you cannot do that, then you are no actor. Your complaint that parts may be unrealistic is unfounded as well, since no play, tv show or movie is real, they are all artistic creations, some may seem real, but that is a trick of the filming and editng. If you think tv acting , which in reality there is no such thing since all tv shows are really short movies, is realisitic, it simply means you have never done it. The way films are made, out of order, and in tiny segments that are later pieced together, is not real at all. Even the "reality" shows are illusions. There are crew all over the place on those "deserted" islands. The theatre and film and tv by their very nature are not real, they are works of art, and you never hear anyone complaining about sculpture because it isn't real. Of course it isn't real. Reality is generally really boreing. The characters in plays, film and tv are interesting because they are put in interesting situations and they say interesting things. In real life, we rarely are able to do that.
Beginning actors do not get to chose their roles, they take what they can get and try to do them well, so they can get better roles in the future. That is the way the business works.

Again, I wish I new what the play was and what your part is, because in this question, you are coming off as a snobbish idiot.