More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal.
You can really do more than you think you can do.
I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'
One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.
All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.
Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.