I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.
When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.
The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.
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.
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
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.
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.