It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.
I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.
I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
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