The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.
I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.
I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.
Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.