ACTOR

While you are hoping to land that great role in a film or on television, keep up your acting skills by auditioning for and playing roles in stage plays. Not only will you always be busy and have new things to put on your résumé, you just never know who might be sitting in the audience one night! It could be a famous casting director, an agent, or a producer. Hard work and persistence are the keys to making it big in this industry. You may hear of someone in the business referred to as a newcomer. Rest assured, this newcomer did not just walk into a Hollywood studio and say, “Hi, put me in a movie.” More often than not this actor has been paying his or her dues for years, modeling for print ads, doing television commercials, or taking small walk-on roles in television specials.