One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.
As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.