That's Probably The Biggest Secret Of Acting:

You Have This Certain About Of Responsibility To Play A Fictitious Character And You Have A Script That's Guiding You And The Other Information Of The Custom Department's Choices, And The Set Department, "where Are You," And All Those Other Pieces Of Information But You Have To Cull From Your Imagination The Answer To All The Unasked Questions. And With A Real Person, There's Someone To Get That Information From, Perhaps.

There Is A Wealth Of Knowledge To Be Understood From Others' Work, Don't Get Me Wrong, And When I Do Stumble Upon Others' Work, It's Not Lost On Me.

I Don't Tend To Use Technology All That Much. Of Course, I Can't Avoid It - It's Called The Telephone Nowadays. And I Do A Certain Amount Of Email, Work-related Primarily, On It. But I Don't Do A Lot Of Looking For Things Online.

I Do, However, Have Tape Over My Eyepiece As Well. What I Think My Peace Is Saying Isn't, "oh I Have Something To Hide. I Don't Want You To Look," It's More Saying, "no Thank You. I Prefer You Not Look. I'm Not Giving You Permission."

As Actors, Emotion Is The Sand In The Sandbox For Us. Without Emotion, There's Nothing To Play - And We Are Playing. We Know That. Whether You Think We Do Or Not, We Know That.