Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.
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.
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.
People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.
It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.
When I'm onstage, I'm acting.
With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.