How To Get Discovered:
10 Suggestions to Help Start Your Acting Career

How do you do it?

You have to POSITION yourself to get discovered! It's that simple. It's simple, but it's not easy!

It's just like in sports. Even the best football player on the field cannot score a goal or a touchdown, if he is not in the right place at the right time! And, the best actors don't always get acting work if they are not in the right place at the right time. See the 10 things you can do to start your acting career.

So here is what you can do for starters to get discovered:

1. Start training. Start to study acting and don't stop no matter how good you think you are or how good others tell you are.
2. Study the acting industry. Find out how it works. Find out who casts what, what agents look for in an actor, what the unions do, what the current issues are in the industry, etc.
3. Figure out what your type is.
4. Learn basic business, networking and self-promotional skills for actors.
5. Learn how to conduct yourself in an acting audition. Auditioning and acting on set are two different beasts.

6. If you really want to get discovered you need to surround yourself with people who are already doing what you want and not with people who are trying to get what you want.
7. Talk to both working actors, who are making a living from acting as well as to aspiring actors who have been talking a lot over the past couple of years, haven't done very much, still don't have an agent and aren't taking classes and who are always making excuses for why they are not further along in their careers. You can learn from both groups! From one you learn what to do. From the other, you will learn how NOT to be.
8. Stay curious and never ever think you know it all. Be humble.
9. Once you start to achieve some success, help others who are in the same position you were once. You'll see that it will pay off, because when people see you help actors by sharing with them your knowledge and experience, others will be more willing to help you if you need help.
10. At some point during all this you should ask yourself (and be honest) if you really, honestly and truly have the passion for acting and to do what is necessary to succeed.

Once you do those things regularly, you will start to intuitively know how to position yourself to get discovered.

I conducted an interview with a Hollywood acting coach Bernard Hiller who said that, "If you let anything at all stop you from becoming an actor, that simply means that it's not for you." That's why point number 10 is so important, because this is hard work and if you don't have passion, true desire and motivation, you won't go very far.

Have a look at this page on my site for new and aspiring teen actors. It has links to 23 pages that have to do with different aspects of starting an acting career. Aside from finding practical tips on how to promote yourself, how to get an agent, taking classes, choosing a school and so on, I invite you to read the page about becoming famous. 

I hope this makes it easier for you to answer the question for yourself about how to get discovered!

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