As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
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Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
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.
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!
As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.