You have to be selfish to be an actor.
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The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
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.
The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.
You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.
The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.