As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.
There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention. Everywhere you go, you know?
I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.
As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.
If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
As an actor, you want to push yourself.
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