I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people - with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don't forget me.
Don't leave your job without getting an acting offer. Very few people in the industry are lucky to get a film without much struggle and be successful.
Back in 2006, when I started in the industry, there was a very old-school beauty mentality. We had to take headshots, and the makeup artists put on so much makeup - I swear I looked like a 48-year-old woman, and I was 22.
My dad came to Korea one time, and then he pulls out a whole bunch of my headshot prints. He's like, 'Amber, you need to sign all of this for me because all of my friends want these.' I guess that's when I kind of realized I was 'famous.'
That's Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot.
Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.
People used to ask me questions on my blog about how to break into the acting industry. You often have to start out in parts where you have very few words, but you still have to try to make an impact.
I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.
I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.
I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.
I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.
Acting is a tough business to break into.
I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.
Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.
I'm always looking for work. There are only two states of being an actor, so if I'm not working, I'm looking for employment.
I've always wanted to model and act. My first break came to me when I was at a parlour to get a haircut. The salon owner asked me if I would model for them.
