As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.
When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
Acting takes so much energy.
Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.
The amount of effort and energy that goes into being an actor is something that I can't compare to anything else.
With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.
As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.