Acting Is Not About Being

One Of The Things That I Love When I Go To A Film Or When I'm Reading Some Book Or Whatever, Is To Be Told A Secret I Thought Only I Knew And Then Someone Says, "oh My Gosh, You Know, Too." And Film Can Take Us Into Private Moments In A Way That The Theater, I Think, Kind Of Can't, And That's One Of The Reasons I Like Doing Films. And The Way A Book Can Is That These Little Secrets And The Private Things That Go On In Our Minds That Maybe We Haven't Shared With Anyone, And Then Someone Writes It Or Shows It To You In A Film, You Think, "oh, That's Me. Oh My God, That's Me, I Have That Secret."

I Fall In Love With All The People I'm Working With, Women, Directors, Everybody. As Actors, That's Actually One Of The Real Pleasures Of The Work. You Have This Weird Opportunity To Get Unnaturally Close To People Very Quickly.

We All Have Our Insecurity And That's Normal. And You Have To Learn To Accept That About Being An Artistic Person Or Aspiring To Be An Artistic Person Is That Fears And Insecurity, They Don't Go Away.

I Had Never Met An Actress Or An Actor When I Thought That I Might Like To Be One. I Had Never Been Around People In Show Business Or From The Theater Or From Movies Or Anything. And I Say That As An Encouragement, I Don't Know Some People Who Want To Be Doing What I'm Doing Or Be Involved In Film. You Don't Have To Be From It To Get Interested And Get Involved. I Certainly Wasn't.

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.