With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.
If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.
Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.
Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.
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