Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.
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Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.
Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.
Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.
As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.
Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.
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