If You're Playing Someone Who's Impeded By

If You're Playing Someone Who's Impeded By Fear, Or Shyness, Or Has Whatever Dysfunction Your Character Might Have, You Have To Achieve The Dysfunction First, Imaginatively, In Order To Play Someone Who Is Trying To Negotiate Their Way Out Of It.

There's No Point In It Unless It's A Story That You Really Want To Tell. It's A Nebulous Job. Unless You're Doing It Well, You're Not Doing Anything. And There Are A Few Of Those. It's Perfectly Possible To Be A Passenger On A Film Set Because If Somebody Else Has Written It, You Can Make Nothing Of That Role And That's Exactly What Bad Directors Do.

I Think Everyone Is Throwing Happy Stuff At You, And That's When You Come Over All Humbug. It's Happy Stuff In Your Face, Happy Stuff Is Being Sold To You.

I Absolutely Don't Care About My Looks And I'm So Used To Them That I Wouldn't Change A Thing. I Would End Up Missing My Defects.

No Matter How Much Technique You Draw On Or How Much Training You Have, Acting Is A Mystery.