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As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.