Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
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As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
I never understood actors who could just wait around.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.
You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.