You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.
Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
The process of doing plays will make you an actor.
As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
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.
I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.
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.
As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.