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If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

— Kenny Ortega

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✓Similar Perspectives

I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.

— Ken Leung

My tips for any budding actors would be to go out and see as much as you possibly can. Find the people you want to work with and be ready to hopefully make them want to work with you.

— Andrew Gower

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

— Tina Fey

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

— Jacki Weaver

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

— Mahershala Ali

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

— Yul Vazquez

If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

— Patrick Whitesell

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

— Jeremy Sisto

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

— Domhnall Gleeson