All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.
This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.
I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.
The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.
Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.
As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.