Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.