You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
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It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.
I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.
Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.
Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.
Acting was what everybody thought I should do, and at 15, when you love something so much, it's like - 'That's not what I do. That's what they do.'
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