In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.
Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
Acting makes you live plenty of lives.
The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.