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If i have like absolutely no experience what so ever but i really love doing like home videos or w/e should i still
consider acting lessons or could i just go out there and try my hardest? I'm a very outgoing persona and i love to have fun and i don't care what people think about me. thats not good enough is it? well. i just need some help getting started! thanks.

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Destiny,

Thanks for writing. You could go out there and try your hardest and see what happens. Not knowing you or your talent, I cannot say what might happen. Maybe you'd find success, maybe not. In most instances, people who just try it without experience usually don't succeed.

My advice would be if you want to be an actor, get the necessary training. You wouldn't go out and attempt to be a plumber without having learned the trade of being a plumber, would you? It's the same with acting. So get the training, THEN go and audition for parts you think are right for you.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Phil

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I am a motion picture and television producer with over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry. I am also the author of the book GET A REEL JOB: Finding Your First Job In The Motion Picture Industry In Los Angeles. I can answers questions on a variety of subjects about careers in film from acting to directing to crew work, getting into the unions, successful strategies for networking, etc.

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Former VP, Production for The Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group Supervised production on such films as ARMAGEDDON, THE PRINCESS DIARIES, REMEMBER THE TITANS, PEARL HARBOR, CON AIR, ENEMY OF THE STATE, THE ROCK, CRIMSON TIDE, COYOTE UGLY, A CIVIL ACTION, ROMY & MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, NOTHING TO LOSE, EDDIE and others. Worked as an actor, stage manager, director on broadway and regional theater as well as L.A.' Equity-waiver scene. Former Associate Artistic Director of Los Angeles Equity-Waiver theater.

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Director's Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, Actor's Equity Association

Education/Credentials
BFA in Acting/Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.

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I've worked with such filmmakers as Jerry Bruckheimer, Tony Scott, Steve Zaillian, Scott Rudin, Garry Marshall, Frank Marshall, Michael Bay, etc.

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