When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!
It doesn't behoove you as an actor to sit around and worry.
That is the most liberating thing to feel as an actor: that you don't have to hold back or be afraid. A bit might not work, but it doesn't matter.
As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.
About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.