In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.
I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
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