Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
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When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.
I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.
Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.
If I wasn't acting, I would be trying to break into acting.
If you're an actor, go out and act.
I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.
The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.
I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.
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