When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
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As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.
You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.
Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.
When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.
I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.
It doesn't behoove you as an actor to sit around and worry.
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.