As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.
As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.
There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.
Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.
Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if it's not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?
I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.
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