I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.
Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.
I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.