Acting Career

An insider's look into the voice-over industry and how to break into it. Learn unique marketing strategies and voice-over techniques for beginner and seasoned actors. Tips from some of the top casting directors in Los Angeles. Learn how to find an agent, how to audition, and how to interpret copy. Find out what goes on in a commercial, a promo, and an animation recording session.

Philip Carlson was the first agent to sign Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Liev Schreiber, Claire Danes, Idris Elba, Kyra Sedgwick, Adrien Grenier, and Paul Giamatti. He has represented Viola Davis, Kathy Bates, Brian Dennehy, and W.H. Macy among many and gifted others. He shares his practical trade secrets in this extraordinarily comprehensive guide on how to get into show business.

This is an excerpt from the Military Veterans in Creative Careers book. It includes only the section on acting and interviews with actors.

To be true to yourself entails acting in accordance with who you are and what you trust. If you understand and love yourself you'll find it easy to be true to yourself. Even as you can't love anybody else till you love yourself, you can't be true to anybody else till you're true to yourself. Be who you are. Have the bravery to accept yourself as you truly are, not as somebody else thinks you should be. Don't take action or pretend to be somebody else for the sake of acquiring acceptance.

An Actor's Business covers everything you need to know to market yourself as an actor, with thorough and concise information about the movie-making process, drama school, community theatre, acting on television and in commercials, unions, and agents. A thorough and well-written resource for anyone wanting to understand all facets of the acting business, this book presents an experienced perspective on the world of professional acting.

Quer ser ator, mas não sabe se leva jeito? Como decorar suas falas no roteiro? Deu branco no meio da peça, e agora? Como seguir uma carreira na arte? Todo artista, não importa o tamanho da fama e do sucesso, já se viu em apuros - de uma forma ou de outra. Nessas horas, não há muito para onde correr. Quem não pode contar com uma voz experiente para ajudar nessas horas de crise, pode amargar momentos de crise artística e profissional.

Got five minutes? Great! Listen to this book to get ideas on how to get your voiceover business going.

El hábito del logro emplea las notables ideas que se derivan del pensamiento de diseño para que descubras el poder innato que tienes para cambiar tu vida para mejor. Al librarte de los problemas que se interponen en el camino para alcanzar tu máximo potencial, ganarás la confianza necesaria para por fin realizar esas cosas que siempre has querido hacer.