An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.
I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.
By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.
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.