I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.
When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.
I'm a really uncomfortable person, so the whole Hollywood lifestyle - attention on me, the cameras, people telling me how to live my life, talking about me in a public way - none of that is appealing to me. Acting is amazing. But everything that comes with it is such a turnoff.
It doesn't behoove you as an actor to sit around and worry.
And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.
I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.
I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.