Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.
When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.
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.
You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.