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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.