If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.
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Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.
As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.
Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
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.
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.
You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.
All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.
There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.