It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.
Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.
To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.
Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.
I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.