There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Actors make choices for different reasons.
I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next.
I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.
As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.