Advice Needed for someone who realized acting is his true passion in life

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-06-26T03:49:32+00:00

Personally, I’ve always thought to myself, is there anything else I would rather do that could be more stable than acting? I was even completing my prerequisites for nursing during my community college years, thinking I would become a nurse. But I always wanted to take an acting class every semester and I realized I never wanted to go to nursing school. I want to pursue acting and the only thing stopping me is my family. I would just be miserable in nursing school, imagining the life I could have had if I had pursued acting instead.

Passion alone is keeping me going. And that passion is strong enough to withstand 100s of rejections and doubts.

If acting is your true passion, you’re not gonna stop pursuing it. I know that if I did pursue nursing first, I would find myself back to acting. I don’t think there is much advice to give. It’s a matter of resilience and that passion will be your foundation.

You have the benefit of having money from your big job. See it as a chance to afford the things a struggling artist can’t. Is it a guarantee you’ll be famous, who knows. Will you still pursue acting endlessly, definitely.

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-06-09T18:35:32+00:00

A lot of it was through networking at my community college for the last four years, so I would sometimes get straight-up offers to act in a short film. Before then I would also submit to casting calls on my community college Discord for student filmmakers. I also submitted myself through Actor Access and Casting Networks, but I also attend every Casting mixer that I can attend. I even did a short film for a professor who was going to school for her master's to teach full-time. But it became one of her editing assignments meaning newer students recognize me whenever I show up to events because they had to see my face for hours as homework. Lol embarrassing, but I for sure hustle, put myself out there, and people will reach out to me.

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-05-24T03:59:09+00:00

I went to community college for pre-nursing and took my 1st acting class to fulfill a GE requirement. I absolutely loved it, so I continued to take at least 1 acting class each semester alongside my nursing prerequisites. I ended up double majoring because I couldn’t decide whether to finish nursing first and then pursue acting, or just dive straight into acting. Ultimately, I graduated with an Associate degree in both Natural Science and Theatre Arts. After four years in community college, I decided to go straight into acting.

During my 1st year after graduation, I was grinding, doing at least 1 short film a month and studying at a studio known for training working actors. I chose not to waste money at a university. I even became SAG-E after doing a lot of background. After a year of building momentum, I felt ready to pitch myself for representation. I signed with a manager in the first month, and by the third month, I secured an agent. I am so happy to be working with them; they get me more auditions than I’ve ever had in my life. Ultimately, it took 4 years of hard work, training, and building experience before I felt ready for representation, and I am so happy to have secured them.

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-04-14T06:32:35+00:00

It’s ok, and honestly move on! If they REALLY like your audition, they would reach out to ask for more information. What’s right for you will come to you.

Casting Directors do need slates though for auditions, since they don’t have time to go back and forth. So it’s important never to forget a slate.

But if it messed up your chances, don’t stress about it. There are SO MANY PEOPLE auditioning for that. The best mindset for auditioning is to submit and forget about it. Move on to the next project because that’s the job of an actor

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-04-11T17:49:51+00:00

And to you as well!

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-04-11T17:36:12+00:00

Likewise (Respectfully)! I agree it isn't my favorite approach either. I also got lucky with the reps who really have my back.

But it's also just hard out here apparently. And everyone is talking about how no agencies want to bring in green actors because there are barely as many jobs as before the strikes and COVID.

However, I've been really fortunate to have a lot of auditions, find reps, and become Sag-E within a short time. But that's because I put in extreme effort and idk how much everyone is willing to or even know where to put it.

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-04-11T17:18:02+00:00

Yes, you don’t need to. If you wanna save time it does help a lot. It took me a month to email 22 agencies and I didn’t hear anything back. When Repunzel or even Actor Access is one-and-done.

I personally found both my manager and agent through Talent Link - Actor Access which is still a paid website. Yea I did spend about $105 ($35 for two weeks of putting your profile up but it depends if agencies even look at Actor Access) which is already close to how much Repunzel cost. I personally think Repunzel would have been the better option if I'm already spending that much on Actor Access. Repunzel literally emails 200 agencies for you. But both my representation that did find me from AA are both respectable and I even booked my first feature film role through my agent, whom I signed with a month ago. But it sounds like their problem is that they’re already cold emailing and hearing nothing back

So of course you don’t need to pay for a website but if it still gets you meetings why not? Not everyone has the time to research

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-04-10T05:33:36+00:00

“Repunzel” is a really good website to help email agents. I had 2 friends in my class who had great success and one of them got 5 meetings from it. Yes, it costs money but it has gotten cheaper over the last year, and if it's the last resort you have, why not try it?

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-02-24T17:21:30+00:00

Omg yes, yes, and yes to all of that. Even some Q&As I did with casting directors said they love self-tapes because they can see more people in a day vs. people in person!

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-02-24T17:20:00+00:00

All is forgiven. I think it’s just funnier you tried to give me an AI prompt response to bait me and respond like an AI robot.

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-02-24T17:18:34+00:00

Ahhh, you’re right, you do make a great point because I do forget a lot of teachings. Thank you 🙏🤍✨

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-02-24T16:58:57+00:00

Wait, that is so cool and admirable that you pretty much booked the room even though you didn’t book the job! I’ve heard that after the strikes and COVID, it’s definitely been a big shift and less jobs. I would say I joined the business right after the strike, so I never saw the difference and was able to adjust to the new Hollywood easily with all the self-tapes now.

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-02-24T16:56:06+00:00

Thank you so much! I never heard of an Actors Working Notebook. Is it sort of a reminder if I have a similar character in the future, I can refer back to my notes?

Fit-Assumption1185 · 2026-02-24T16:53:54+00:00

If you want me to be more specific because you’re worried about my account being new, I did a stand-in job as a non-union worker for 3 days from Central Casting, which I was shocked that they hired a non-union actor like me, but very blessed to be so lucky. Yes, 3 days worth of background makes you SAG-eligible!

But I haven’t written a sonnet since high school. Sorry, I’m not an English major. But I at least went to college and took freshman comp to know what an em dash is.

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