I can give you some tips for being an actor, because I am an actor. First you should know I'm only 15. I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was old enough to tell my mom and dad that I wanted to be like the kids on Barney. I think I was 4.

I bugged them for a few years about acting and they finally let me take my first acting class, it was so cool. It was like playing pretend with other kids and adults. While I also wanted to be a dancer and a singer. I eventually decided that acting was what I really wanted to do.

Now it's 9 years later and I am doing what I had always dreamed of. I'm very lucky, my mom and dad are supportive. So supportive they sold our family business and moved us to Los Angeles, after my agent suggested that was what they should do.

To be an actor you need to take classes, not just acting classes but all kinds of classes, you can never know how to do too much. Like dancing, surfing, skateboarding, you name it, if you can at least look like your doing it, it's a plus when auditioning. You need to keep taking these classes especially the acting ones while your acting too.

Then you need a agent. It took my mom 2 years to find me an agent, not because I stunk, but because I was only a kid, and not alot of agents deal only with kids and they get a lot of people who want them to represent them.

When you get your agent they will tell you which headshot to use, if you already have them. If you don't then you have to go back and show your agent all your pictures and they will pick the right one.

Then you also need a resume. If your young or just starting out they don't expect you to have very much stuff on your resume. They will tell you what to put on it. Mine looked funny, when I first started it had my basic information and my acting classes and other classes it wasn't even a half a page long.

If your still trying to get an agent, you can do background work and independent films and student films. The background works pays you, but most of the time the other two don't. But it's something to put on your resume and I was happily surprised to meet a big actor who had loved the script and did it for nothing to work with!

To make it as an actor it takes a lot of work. Even having to do things you don't want to do, like get up at 3am to be on set at 5am. You have to sometimes were really ugly clothes and they make you look like a freak. But, it's all in the day of an actor and it's fun!

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