Career Guidance / Acting

“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” ~Sanford Meisner “If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you’re given a free chance to practice your craft.” ~Phillip Seymour Hoffman Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode. Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-developed imagination, emotional facility, physical expressivity, vocal projection, clarity of speech, and the ability to interpret drama. Acting also demands an ability to employ dialects, accents, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat. Many actors train at length in specialist program or colleges to develop these skills. Most professional actors have undergone extensive training. Actors and actresses will often have many instructors and teachers for a full range of training involving singing, scene-work, audition techniques, and acting for camera.