Are you an actor/actress

I know what you mean. I'm shy too, so yes, everywhere and anywhere in society, you gotta keep up or else, you'll go broke. I'm not comfortable with it, but I think I did get sort of used to it after a while.

Yes I am and I actually was a paid extra in the movie Across the Universe and I was in the music video Yellow Taxi Cab by Vanessa Carlton and Counting Crows

Somehow I have mostly managed to get away with being myself, but then IT people are SUPPOSED to be different. :D

Actually, right now, I'm about to get my BA and my major is Drama. I do have to take acting classes, and I have actually taken acting classes since I was about 7. So, I would say that I'm comfortable with it. I certainly enjoy doing it. I don't know how things will turn out, but I hope to get more opportunities act in the future. It's something that I would like to do.

hi pat, guess most of us played roles or actors and actresses some way or the other in this short life here on earth, guess it is but natural so long as it worked to our advantage and did not compromise anyone, good day

As Shakespeare said "All the world's a stage and men and women play many parts ..." Actors know they only play versions of themselves and so do you. You feel shy but still want attention. You choose jobs which force you to use that part of yourself that wanted that attention. Good for you! You are not really acting but letting a part of yourself shine that you are not really comfortable with. That takes courage and opening yourself up to new parts of yourself. Being open is always best. Each time you do so, you know yourself better. I don't always enjoy doing things outside of my comfort zone in the world, but do enjoy doing them on stage. I don't think of what I do in the world as acting, it is finding out about myself.

I trained as a professional actor in London, and worked as such on and off for some 20 years. I'm still officially a member of the profession, but these days, don't act professionally; instead I'm more of a musician and a writer. As for acting in life, I do it to an extent. But it's hard for me to hide, because my eyes reveal so much. However, with strangers, I act to a degree; I play a part; I blend in with my humble down to earth community, and am indistinguishable from my fellows in appearance, even though I'm in a sense different. Yet I feel comfortable with them. I've always been something of an outsider, so have always played something of a part. Although it gets harder with age; which is why I tend to be a loner; a lone creator; solitude is good for creation. Although of course, everything I do is for others.

I think everyone is an actor in what they do. Many of us have to act all happy to see people when we don't even know them, but it's no big deal you get used to it when you deal with the public. But it's better to do a good job & a lil acting I suppose than to be in trouble for acting like you didn't want to be there and or any type of "attitude". Though ones personal life can get into the way of a good acting job as you have other things on your mind and usually it's the painful ones that bother us and inhibit us from doing our job well.

When I was younger, I would really say that I was a genuine person in all facets of my life. However, I was hurt by some people that I knew in my life so I am not the genuine person that I used to be. I find that there are more times that I am acting in my life now than there are times that I really am genuine. That said, I really don't enjoy acting, but I do it because it is a defense mechanism where I am able to protect myself.

I was very shy as a child. I was in a lot of school plays and that took away a great deal of that shyness. I am not an actress now but it was always a dream of mine.

For me not the same in the television I'm in my own way to serve Jehovah God.

Hi savypat! My job also calls for me to be in situations I would rather not be in and to be somebody else I am not. I, too, am shy and reticent. And when I confided this to a friend, she said it doesn't show on my face. In fact, I exude confidence, she said. Ugh! If they only knew! I would rather work behind the scenes, unknown and unseen. And I believe I am most effective when I am in the shadows. But there are times, if not most of the times, when we have to wear different masks to suit the occasion. I am not comfortable in some of the masks but i bear it and somehow get through. And I daresy I am where I am because of these masks, comfortable or not.

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Yeah people tell me all the time tht I should be a model, but idk. I'm not really shy but I don't like to be the center of attention.

I do not really need to act much anymore. When I did a lot of mystery shops, I did, and when I did product demonstrations I did. I have been in plays, and also been a clown. I started being an "actress" when I went to High School. I felt so lost but I acted like I knew what was going on, and I acted like I was older than I was, and I avoided some of the bullying that younger students often experienced when they first went to high school. I also joined the Debate team. I do not know if I "enjoy" it, but I seem to be pretty comfortable with it. My grandmother always said I was going to be a stand up comic, because I would see a product in her house and perform the commercials for it.

Pat- I'm very introverted to be honest, despite what appearances may show when in public. I'm the type that prefers to work alone, or without an authority figure hounding over me all day. I also prefer to stay at home. I will be the social butterfly at parties and be the good hostess or guest, but it is my ideal situation. Large functions really send my anxiety into over drive, so yes I suppose I am a good actress when it comes to appearing without lack of grace in social situations. Namaste-Anora

U R right. we have to act , put a false face . smile when u don't like to etc. I was in the marketing line so had to smile and act and had to agree to what customers said and had to convince few things by acting as their friend etc. this is professional life have to do to earn our bread and butter. but there are people who act in personal life too, cheating on spouses, parents and friend. i am not an actor in personal life but love acting on stage. i have acted in many school dramas and won accolades.

As a child i had some inferiority problems. I cam from a bucolic town but studied in a school situated in an urban area. I was so timid i didn't know how to communicate. But as time goes on i learned how to pretend not to be shy anymore. Yes i have been acting and i always pretend to be a woman with no shame, yes the word shame is appropriate for me!