If You're An Actor, You

It Used To Be The One Or The Other, Right? You Were The 'bad Girl' Or The 'good Girl' Or The 'bad Mother' Or The 'good Mother,' 'the Horrible Businesswoman Who Eschewed Her Children' Or 'the Earth Mother Who Was Happy To Be At Home Baking Pies,' All Of That Stuff That We Sort Of Knew Was A Lie.

You End Up Loving Every Character That You Play But A Lot Of The People I've Played, I Should Just Say For Myself, I Played, I Wouldn't Necessarily Want To Continue Playing Them. I've Done Them. It's Like Going On A Trip. You Go, You're Amazed, You're Glad You're There But You're Glad To Get Home. And That's How I Feel Most Of The Time.

If You Push In Every Time There's A Big Moment, Then The Tenth Time You Push In, You're Not Going To Get The Same Effect. Or If You Have Too Many Close Ups, Then When You Have A Big Moment And You Want A Close-up In Order To Make A Point, It Doesn't Mean Anything Because You've Already Been Doing Close-ups. It's Like Writing In All Capitals. Then After A While That Doesn't Mean Anything. So, Just Because You Can Do Something With A Camera Doesn't Mean You Should.

You Can't Ask The Guy With The Checkbook To Always Be The Person. So, We Actors Have To Try. And Believe Me, It's Not Just Young People Who Are Struggling With This, Trying To Get Things Of Substance Made Because Of The Proliferation Of Technology That It's Just Harder And Harder To Get Things That Really Matter Made. But They Are Being Done And You Just Have To Fight The Good Fight And Try To... If You Have Something That You Have Written, You Have To Do Your Best To Try To Get It Made In Whatever Way You Can.

Acting Is Not About Being Famous, It's About Exploring The Human Soul.