Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.
I'm never going to be comfortable being squished into a box, and that's why it's been weird in Hollywood, they don't know what to do with me, because I can play the game up to a point, but then I can't at all.
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.