How To Start Your Career in Acting

Read on to get tips on taking the first step to starting a career in acting

Acting is a notoriously difficult business to break into. As the adage goes, there’s no business-like show business. Gruelling auditions, an eternity between paying jobs, unconventional hours, and an extraordinarily high level of competition. With so many problems to overcome, how to start a career in acting?

Every great and accomplished actor on the screen has had a different journey, but to simplify things, we’ve broken the problem down into three steps:

• Learning how to act
• Making the transition from learning about acting to acting professionally
• Finding out how to get auditions for movies 

Kickstart your acting career with lessons. Find out more about The Actors Pulse, and see how we can elevate your acting technique.

Learn how to act in a movie

The first and most important step to achieving your goal of acting for movie roles is to improve your acting. Acting classes are a tried and tested way to achieve that end. Working with experienced professionals can help get your acting to a movie-level standard.

There are many kinds of acting lessons. You can get classes for beginner, intermediate, or advanced acting techniques. You can learn acting skills on stage or acting in movies. You can even choose how regularly you take classes, from intensive full-time courses to something on a more casual basis.

How to transition from acting to movies

Acting lessons are a great start, but the journey to starting your career in acting doesn’t end there. You must meet people in showbusiness and learn how the industry works. In addition to attending acting classes, talk to your teachers and fellow students about the world of acting. Form relationships, express your ambitions and listen closely to advice.

How to get auditions for movies

Even when an actor is famous and established, they still usually must audition to get the part. Getting the opportunity to audition for great parts becomes easier over time — interested directors and producers send out scripts intended for specific performers — but it tends to be hard going when you’re starting.

The only way to get auditions for movies as a beginner in the business is to put yourself out there. Seek out casting directors and audition listings. Don’t be discouraged if at first, you don’t succeed; there are many rejections for every big break in this business. An acting teacher who has experienced the highs and the lows of the business will be able to guide on this, and many other acting-related topics.

At The Actors Pulse, we offer lessons to suit all sorts of actors, no matter what stage of your career you’re at. Read on to find out more about The Actors Pulse and see how we can make a difference in your acting.