Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.
I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.
When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.
With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.