T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much until they get the job.
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.
Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.
I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.
Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.
T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.