As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!
As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.
To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me.
For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.
There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.
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