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A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.

Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.