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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
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.
There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous, with that whole lifestyle. I had to realize I could find a balance between what I like to do and what people think you're 'supposed' to do as an actress.
I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
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