Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.
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As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.
I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.
There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.
It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.
That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.