I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.
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So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.
I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.
Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.
Acting is a job of permission. Someone has to give you permission to do it. But I have started to be like, 'I only want to do things that I want to do,' and writing has afforded me the luxury.
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.