So you want to be an actor?

So you want to be an actor?

Many people think that acting _________

• looks

• looks like

• look as if

They believe it´s just a question of memorizing lines and delivring them in front ot the camera. "If I could remember words, I ____________ be an actor too".

• can

• could

• will be able to

Yet, none of them would expect to become a professional singer overnight. In general, most people think that becoming a__________requires far more training than appearin on-screen.

• concerto

• soprano

• symphony

In fact, ittakes just as much traininig to be a good actor________ it does to become an opera singer.

• as

• like

• than

The difference is that an actor has to learn____ naturally so that the audience doesn´t _____ that he or she is acting. Accordiing to the famous teacher Stanford Meisner, "Acting is doing things truthfully under imaginary circumstances"

• perform

• to perform

• advise

• realize

If a person________ to become a successful actor, they have to learn how to bring a script to life. From the moment he or she receives the pages, an actor will__________ for action in lines in order to make choices about his or her performance.

• wants

• had wanted

• be looking

• have looked

In conclusion, it is impossible to wake up one morning and spontaneously decide to go out and get an acting job. The naturalness of an actor´s performance might make you _________ that anyone who can read or speak can be one.

• think

• thinking

• to think

However, it´s more than likely that it____ them many years of training to get where they are now

• had taken

• has been taking

• has taken