I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
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.
The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.
I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!
Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.