Acting Is Not About Being

One Of The Things On A Very Practical Level As An Actor Or Actress Is That When You Do A Play, You Do The Entire Story Every Time You Do It. You Have Eight Shows A Week. You Have A Rehearsal Process Of Four To Five To Six Weeks. And Then Once You're In Performance, Everybody Else Goes Away And You're There With Your Fellow Actors And The Audience And The Material And Your Life Becomes About That. And You Go Through The Story From The Beginning To The End Every Time You Do It And Depending On How Long You Do It, That's Where The Craft Comes In.

A Lot Of Acting Is Working With Your Own Psyche In Order To Allow Yourself To Be Open And Reveal Yourself. But Then Of Course There's A Healthy Part Of You That Says, "well, Don't Do That." You Know, You're Going To Be In Front Of People. You Could Look Foolish. You Could Get It Wrong. You Could Be Too Big Or Too Small Or Not Realistic Or Whatever Those Things Are. People Might Criticize You. There's All Kinds Of Reasons Not To Be Open. But You Do Want To Be Open.

I've Always Been Pretty Levelheaded. In Show Business You Need To Have A Certain Internal Stability.

I Remember Hearing Someone Say That Good Acting Is More About Taking Off A Mask Than Putting One On, And In Movie Acting, Certainly That's True. With The Camera So Close, You Can See Right Down Into Your Soul, Hopefully. So Being Able To Do That In A Way Is Terrifying, And In Another Way, Truly Liberating. And I Like That About It.

If You're An Actor, You Have To Find A Way To Make Peace With All The Media Attention.