In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is authenticity. So if you're just real in those moments, no matter what you're doing, that's what translates and makes you successful.
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.
Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.
In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.