One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.
I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.
The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.
It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.
Being actors is a strange job.
As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.
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