As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
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Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.
The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.