The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
When I started out I was a failed actor.
Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.
I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.
It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.