HI, I'm Leila I'm an actress who is currently studying psychology. I am in my second year but for my final year we get to run our own experiment and my idea is an investigation in to why do actors act.
I really want to do this investigation and frankly I think it could produce really interesting results.
The basic format who be a questionaire where the participants would have to circle a number which best corresponded to the statement above such as:
I act because I want to have no regrets when I am old.
From the answers I should I think be able to run a statical anaylsis and one or a couple of reasons should come out on top. Basically I need reasons why actors act or if considering a career in acting might want to act. So far I have:
I want to be happy
I want to enjoy my life
I want to have no regrets at the end of my life/ I wanted to try it.
I enjoy hard work
I enjoy a challenge
I want to be famous/ I want to be a household name
I want to be rich
I want to be remembered when I die
I want to be on TV/ I want to be in a Film
I want to be like X or Y.
I wanted to do something from my parents
WOW, thanks guys to be honest I didn't think that I would get such a huge response i have taken a copy of what all you guys have said so when i put the tutle to my lectures at the end of next term I will hopefully get a yes.
The title at the moment is 'Is life full filment and happiness the main reason actors act instead of money'
because every day for as long as I can remember I have woken each day and wanted to act thought about it all day until I went to bed, sometimes dreamed about it in my sleep and woke the next day feeling the same (god I sound like a nutter) also I never felt I was listened to as a child so wanted to be heard I guess...
...He knew which way the wheels went round though!...& that 'Scarlet O Harry'
was rather delectable in her heyday!
(when not completely drunk as skunk!)
My mum was a principle sorprano,(not the ganster type!)for 12 years then went on to make films with Leslie Philips &
understudied lead roles in films made by Stanley Kubrick although this was to bring in some extra dosh for her young family after deciding to have one! In the early days Vic Oliver wanted her to be his protege but required moving in with him! She joined the chorus at Sadlers Wells instead at 17 & made principle at 19!
She shared her dressing room with Margot Fontaine. All not bad for a working class girl from Camden Town!
So that's my inspiration. Probably the reason why I took a while to 'bite the bullet' & enroll at drama school, initially focused on a completely different career in sport & business but ultimately cannot escape the fact performing to the audience is in my DNA.
Because I've never been able to watch a film/play/show/TV programme without wishing it were me on stage /screen. In fact, I'm very often moved to tears by the jealousy I feel when watching other people do a job I know I can do.
Also, I wouldn't know what else to do. This way, I get to try out a hundred different careers (waitress, office temp, promo staff, teacher, theatre usher, bar maid, sales assistant.....!!!!!!)
All the normal ones:
I want to be liked
I want to be challenged
I want to challenge other people
I want to be someone else
I want to be happy in my job
Plus: my peers laughed at me when I said at 16 that I wanted to be an actress. That was and still is the one overriding reason. Sad, but true!
I act because I reckon I'm good at it and I'm a lot better than some of the stars of this business and fancy having the kind of dosh that they earn!
Also because I was not loved enough as a kid and I want people to love me or even just like me!
I used to wet the bed.
I'm incredibly vain.
I'm insecure but getting better.
I love the sound of my own voice.
I like looking at myself on screen.
I want more people to say how good I am.
I have low self esteem.
I'm no use at anything else.
I'm an outsider.
I'm on the fringes of society.
I like pretending.
I'm Walter Mitty.
I never grew up and am incredibly immature for a bloke my age.
I want the whole world to know what an amazing guy I am really.
I want to be recognised in the street.
I reckon it beats digging holes in the road. (I've done a lot of that)
I really do enjoy film acting.
I love being on a professional set and often the food is good.
I know a lot of successful actors and want to show them that I am better than them.
I'm a worthless piece of shit!
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