Hallo lovely peoples! Nathan is in the lounge! i'm new !

I'm sorry if I seem to be a bit ANGRY in this comment!! But every time I look on this website I end up reading at least SEVEN comments exactly like this one!!!!!!! miraculously this one didn't begin with: "Hi, my names Asha. I'm a two year old girl looking to become a star overnight. I'm lazy and Ignorent and really didn't do ANY research before I posted this, I have no experience, no training but look pretty. My mum says I'm a great actor....Yeh...so if you hear of any auditions can you forward them on to me (I can't be bothered to look on the Auditions page under 'WHATS ON'" I'm sorry! IT JUST GETS SOOOOOOOO OFF-PUTTING!!!!!!!!! reading this over and over and over and over and over again! All of them seem to come from kids aged under 15!!!!!! Who don't have agents!!!! Not many people will take you seriously if you have no training and no agent and no EXPERIENCE. LETS GET THIS STRAIGHT: Berts guide to becoming an actor/STAR 1) Get trained: Training for screen is very important. you need to know not to look down the barrel of the camera when auditioning! (Unless the Casting Director asks you to). Little things like that! Get training in stage, on voice, on movement! If you can't do training at WAAPA or NIDA, perhaps your one of those 12year olds I was talking about, get traing elsewhere! In Perth: Ali Roberts Kelly! Great trainer-everything you want in screen training, most agents run classes, ACTorsNOW have classes for kids, as does Nerida and I think FROG. James Hagen! Voice, trains people in voice overs, stage voices and voices for camera. Excellent person to see for Accent training! 2)EXPERIENCE! is critical. Volenteer for radio, (mind you, perhaps not at fourteen), volenteer for Uni films, I have learnt sooooo much just from the auditioning process alone! eg: how to steady your nerves! Acting with community theatre as I like to call it is absolutly GREAT!!!!! Great fun, great EXPERIENCE! you learn so much on the job! If your passionate join a youth theatre co. in Perth; WAYTCO! DTP, Stirling theatre players, There are billions of them!!!! Although you may not get paid for it, ITS ALL WORTH IT. 3) By now most of the uncommited kids have dropped away! YAY! GET YOURSELF AN AGENT!!!!!! These people REPRESENT you, they get all the audition notices! YOU can relax, let them do all the work in finding you auditions (this does not mean you don't keep a wether eye open for auditions yourself). If you don't want an agent, GO FREELANCE (although this requires more vigilance). Send in a couple of pics to your nearest Casting DI!!! 4) HAVE FUN! Do it for the passion of the art itself!!! countless times I hear from kids they just want to be rich and famous! When you enter theatre in particular, there is little chance of you becoming rich and famous...sorry to burst you bubbles guys! There is to much oppersition, as in to many other actors going for the same job.... the chances of you getting a job are about 1 in 12, so for every 12 auditions you go to, your probably only going to get one! AND THERE ISN"T THAT MANY JOBS AROUND!!!! Most actors hold down at least one extra job to keep raking the cash in!!!!! Did you know that one of our very own 007s used to be on the dole?? PLEASE PEOPLE, DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE COMING HERE!!! Yours I could say "Gloria monday", but I see Mr T has already used that one.... I'll call myself BERT. So to all the tiny tots and hopefulls out there, my apologies for breaking your dreams of becoming the next australian star....but thats it! SO STOP POSTING COMMENTS THAT WILL WASTE PEOPLES TIME! Love "BERT"