My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.
Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.
In animation, action is changing so quickly that there's really not a lot of suspended moments.