I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.
I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.
Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.