Actors Should Act. Not Sell

I Love Tv. I Think I'd Do A Half-hour Single-camera Comedy.

My Biggest Goal Was - I Thought, God, If I Could Just Be A Rep Company Member At The Arena Stage In Washington, D. C. And Get To Play A Bunch Of Parts In A Year! And Now In My Work Everything Is About Promoting It. It's Not About The Doing Of It! Everything Is: You Have To Sell It, And They Ask You To Tweet About It Or Do Photo Shoots, Even For The Smallest Job. There's An Imbalance In Terms Of What Is Actually Gratifying. The Stuff That Is Gratifying Is, Like I Said, The Day Of Work And The Doing Of It.

As I've Gotten Older, I've Gotten More Liberal, And My Father Is Increasingly Conservative. It's So Shocking To Me Because I Always Thought We Had The Same Politics. The Day I Realized We Voted For Different Presidents, I Practically Fell Out Of My Chair.

If You Do Have Something You Love To Do, The Fun Part Of The Job Is No Different Than What Was Fun About Doing It In High School For No Money. I Thought There Would Be Some Greater Reward In Succeeding.

I Remember Feeling A Huge Amount Of Anxiety And Worry And Pressure. At That Point I Was Headed Into Acting School. That Was 100 Percent The Only Thing I Thought I Wanted To Do. But Then I Got Through My First Year Of College, And I Was, Like, Humming And Rolling Around, Pretending To Be A Lion In Acting Classes At Nyu And Visiting Our Classmate Charlie Gregg At Harvard, Where He Was Actually Learning Things. So I Changed My Mind: I Decided I Actually Wanted A Different Kind Of Education, And That Was An Incredibly Freeing Idea.