Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.
I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.
I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.