Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.
When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.
I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.