You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.
People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.
That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.
You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.