If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.