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Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.