Whats the Best way to get into the acting business?

Question:The one and only way is by doing it.

Most get started through college. If you take a look at most major actors, directors and producers you see they got their BA or MFA from NYU's Tisch school, Julliard, USC, UCLA, Northwestern, etc.

When Steven Bochco got to run a show he hired his wife and all his friends from college in Philly to act in it.

So there's training, experiene and networking at play.

There few exceptions to the rule, such as Leonardo DiCaprio who got cast at 17 right out of Marshall High and I don't know if he took drama there or not.

Jody Foster started out as a kid in TV commercials but she ended up going to Yale for her BA 8 years after doing the Taxi Driver.

Even Steven Spielberg managed to eventually get a BA from I think Cal State Long Beach of all places.

College theater works the bugs out of you and prepares you for it all.

Dance and pantomime is required.

You learn stage crafts, props, management, writing, directing and acting.

You do plays over and over.

So many people here MOAN about monologues.

Understand George C. Scott can do twenty at the drop of a hat from memory.

In college you do all the major class plays.

You do all the classic musicals.

The only people that make it without this are those with strong characters and they aren't here asking questions, they're bugging people for jobs.

Then do understand the show biz life. Small theater is free or $200 a week it's living at the place on the stage sofa. You're the janitor as well as the leading lady.

A friend of mine who's a bread a butter actor does two TV shows every 24-18 months. That's like $5,000 a year in new work. With is backlog of shows he's making another $15,000 in residuals but that's a K-Mart wage and he's a TV actor and been one for 20 years.

Talked with another actor friend the other day. She got a $1 residual check for something she was in.

She told me, something I never knew before, they can be as low as 5 cents.

Yes, NBC cuts 5 cent checks to comply with the SAG residual rules!

It's better than the music business, they usually send you a report that says you are IN DEBT $305,356 to BMG after they applied the $6,345 they got in royalties from your album that flopped two years ago.

Oh, and the clincher.

If you end up going union have your $2,500 ready to buy your union card in one payment, certified check.

You can't work a second day without it.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The one and only way is by doing it.

Most get started through college. If you take a look at most major actors, directors and producers you see they got their BA or MFA from NYU's Tisch school, Julliard, USC, UCLA, Northwestern, etc.

When Steven Bochco got to run a show he hired his wife and all his friends from college in Philly to act in it.

So there's training, experiene and networking at play.

There few exceptions to the rule, such as Leonardo DiCaprio who got cast at 17 right out of Marshall High and I don't know if he took drama there or not.

Jody Foster started out as a kid in TV commercials but she ended up going to Yale for her BA 8 years after doing the Taxi Driver.

Even Steven Spielberg managed to eventually get a BA from I think Cal State Long Beach of all places.

College theater works the bugs out of you and prepares you for it all.

Dance and pantomime is required.

You learn stage crafts, props, management, writing, directing and acting.

You do plays over and over.

So many people here MOAN about monologues.

Understand George C. Scott can do twenty at the drop of a hat from memory.

In college you do all the major class plays.

You do all the classic musicals.

The only people that make it without this are those with strong characters and they aren't here asking questions, they're bugging people for jobs.

Then do understand the show biz life. Small theater is free or $200 a week it's living at the place on the stage sofa. You're the janitor as well as the leading lady.

A friend of mine who's a bread a butter actor does two TV shows every 24-18 months. That's like $5,000 a year in new work. With is backlog of shows he's making another $15,000 in residuals but that's a K-Mart wage and he's a TV actor and been one for 20 years.

Talked with another actor friend the other day. She got a $1 residual check for something she was in.

She told me, something I never knew before, they can be as low as 5 cents.

Yes, NBC cuts 5 cent checks to comply with the SAG residual rules!

It's better than the music business, they usually send you a report that says you are IN DEBT $305,356 to BMG after they applied the $6,345 they got in royalties from your album that flopped two years ago.

Oh, and the clincher.

If you end up going union have your $2,500 ready to buy your union card in one payment, certified check.

You can't work a second day without it.

Increase your beauty, acting, body structure.
See lot of movie and practice acting by seeing the movies..,

Studynig and work very hard, dont just look for fame, do casting, but work hard, this is the most important thing, this is the way to be a good actrees or actor...

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