What you need to know about a career in acting
June 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Arts & Entertainment Jobs
A career in acting can be broken down into two categories, Practical and Artistic. In some ways you might be fooling yourself if you have to even ask the question, should I be an actor? Most people who are good actors have really never wanted to be anything else. But, then again, as Rob Mitchum once put it – “I only did it to meet girls”. But I’m sure he found the art along the way.
As Sir Ralph Richardson once answered when asked why he became an actor, he replied, “I wasn’t good at anything else.” This may seem funny, but it also reveals that he only ever had an interest in acting. With the answers, below, I am assuming you have already done your training at the best school possible and are still committed to being an actor. Ok, first the practical side.
1) How can I support myself between gigs? You should have either developed a second string to your bow in a complementary field e.g. become a good-earning street performer, or playing an instrument in an orchestra, or in a band at local clubs…