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If you are really interested in acting, you might consider taking a class or forming a weekly play-reading group. You can also set a goal for yourself to read three plays a week and thus have a good working knowledge of your profession. Set a goal to read one Shakespeare play a week. Be sure to use a good edition with plenty of footnotes. If possible, go to open calls. They require acting and they can improve your talent of acting, what’s more, through the acting course you can deal with the nervousness. Brush up weekly on your monologues. You never know when an instant opportunity will come knocking.

Read. It is my opinion that next to innate talent, the greatest asset for an actor is the ability to read and understand the nuances of what you read. Read reviews on the Internet of the plays you are reading. Read poetry. There are great poems that do not require a graduate degree in literature to understand and these same poems will change the way you see the world.

Everything I am suggesting aims to broaden your understanding of human beings and this world we inhabit. A greater understanding of human nature will make you a better actor. If you take your "downtime" and use it to read, that subsequent growth of your humanity will compensate for the loss of growth as an actor.

In the best of all possible worlds, all of us would act all the time, grow, and develop as human beings. In my Utopia, we would all read and look at art and nature and listen to great music and have compassion and understanding. Actors are born actors. But great actors must be nurtured and nourished.