When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.
Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.
As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.