Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.
Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.
Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.
People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.