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If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.