As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
As an actor, I am careless with the way I look on screen.
I don't really view myself as an actor.
Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.
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.
I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.