I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.
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I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind.
Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.
I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.
What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.
I am not the greatest actor in the world, but the reason I keep working is that I work hard and show up every day and be easy to work with.
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