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.
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Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.
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.
I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.
Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.
Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
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