With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.
Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.
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.
I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors.