You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
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You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.
I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'
As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.
Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.
I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.
You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.
I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.