It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.
I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.
In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.
I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.
I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.
Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
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