I am 18 and an aspiring actress with no experience. I want to do acting because I am a shy person and want to get out of my shell more. I want to test my limits, I’m tired of living it “safe”. I wanna get involved in a community or an activity where I can do something creative and share that with others. I am someone who likes to be creative, but haven’t really found my niche. I love writing and have written poems and stories since I was 5 years old. I have done acting once in my acting college class and really loved the experience! I did this in class play of Antigone and was a chorus member and even though i had a small role I still enjoyed the fact that I was apart of that experience. I wanna do something new and creative with my life. I love the idea of becoming different people in order to tell a story for the audience to enjoy, and one day i hope to be able to write a story too and hope the audience will enjoy it.
However, my family has side agendas of me wanting to explore acting. They want me to do it for the money and get discovered so we can all live comfortably (I come from a poor background), but I’ve seen on TV what hollywood can do to people and don’t really like the idea of it. But I still wanna try acting, because I have never been really good at anything and wanna try to be good at something for once in myself. I wanna do something I love. In life we all have one life to live and I feel if I don’t do this now then I will regret it for the rest of my life. I remember the first play that made me fall in love with theatre. It was the broadway play “Aida” and I just remembered saying to myself when i was 13 years old. “Wow! I wanna do that too!”. I want people to enjoy my work and inspire others too. To me acting is an art I feel doesn’t get alot of respect for the people who put their time and effort into it. So what should I do? Should I still pursue acting even though my family has hidden agenda’s or am I wasting my time? It’s just I am afraid if acting leads me into bigger opportunities my family will ruin it for me. My family doesn’t even know that I am studying acting as a theatre major, and am trying to get involved in theatre. However, they keep bringing it up like they already know. If u get what i mean?
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Is It Ok To Get Into Acting For This Reason Or Am I Wasting My Time? Please Help!?
Posted on February 1, 2012.
Girl u sure can write! LOL. I’m just joking with u. I think that is a wonderful reason to get into acting. It sounds like to me u have caught the acting bug from that play “Aida”. I have seen it myself some years ago and that was a wonderful play! The music, the acting, the dancing, the sining. It was beautiful! But back to ur question I think u will do wonderfully as an actress. Who knows u might even enjoy it more or u might even decide its not for you after exploring it more. Whatever the case maybe i see nothing wrong with u wanting to explore this field. It can have its rewards, but most of the time it has tedious work and will spend most of your evenings in rehearsals. I suggest u start out small and keep working at acting. As for your family they see u as a meal ticket, becareful with that. Ur 18 years old and I don’t think u should let your family get in the way of you doing what u want to do with your life. Remember you are an adult now and ur life is yours. You don’t have to do anything u don’t want to do. It’s possible they do know now as they keep leaving hints, but don’t worry about it.
Trust me, I know just how you feel. I’m an aspiring author, and my family is constantly trying to get me published so I can be famous and we can live comfortable (I come from a poor background, too. Kinda wierd, huh?) My sister constantly bugs me about “when are you gonna get this published? How much of the money are we gonna get?” I write for the love of writing, and they just don’t understand that. What’s more, they don’t even like the kind of stuff that I write (fantasy, they despise imagination.) But anyway, back to your question. You really, truly want to go into acting, even though your family has other agendas. Well, don’t let that stop you! Try out for acting, go into theater, pursue your dream! And if Hollywood gives you a call, it could never hurt to say no, right? Besides, you’re doing what you love, and nothing, nothing, should stop you from doing that. Nothing.
Who you live for? You live for you! Not selfish. But you are really a citizen. You have to decide every things to you can’t tell your parents that: “I tired of career that parents choose for me, it’s a big mistake in my life!” or maybe the opposite. But you must make sure that what you choose is right for your attention and your favorite, no regrets about that. But if someday you find yourself going the wrong way: turning the shore. And one more thing you should remember: Be yourself, everyone loves your inner man, change is good but let’s change direction better and make changes if the changes make you more ok.
Do what you want, but not contrary to law and morality.^_^