Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors because in a weird way, psychology and acting kind of seem interwoven.
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I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.
Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.
My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
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