My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.
I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.
As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.
I'm an actor. It's my job.
As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.