I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care.
As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.
I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.
I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.
I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.