In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.
The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
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 acting world is a humbling experience, I find.
Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.
Being actors is a strange job.
Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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