People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
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I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.
Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.
To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.
You always have these moments when projects are over when you wonder if you'll ever work again. In the end, what it comes down to is that it's a fine line between becoming too enamored of your own success and maintaining the confidence to do what you do and do it well. That's the line every actor, if they're lucky, has to walk.
As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.
You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.
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