What makes you tick? What propels you to act?
I don't know. I have never been able to answer that question. I just love it. I love doing what I am doing. It's similar to falling in love I guess. Why do people fall in love? Nobody has been able to answer that question, so maybe this is why I don't know what pushes me to act. It's art, pure art, to be able to enact somebody else's life whether it's fictional or non fictional. I want to hide behind it.
Behind what?
The mask.
I feel safe there. I feel that nobody can touch me or hurt me. The person behind this mask is a scared human being. I have lived a life filled with remorse, fear, insecurities and I want to run away from them. The characters I play give me a relief that I am alive. I can be a lover and a bandit and I can do it with much bravery and passion than I would live my real life. This is what keeps me alive or else I would have been dead.
Oh!
The lights, the costumes, the sets, the people, the stories all amalgamate to form a moment that feels real, that is true.It's like all negatives combine together to make a positive.
You know good actors have to be good observers. What do you think? Enacting a
beggar, or your neighbor, or your colleague,their every move, their every gait comes from observation.
[Sigh]
Sometimes I wish I could be invisible.
Why is that?
So that I can stand in the corner and just look at people. Look at how they behave. How they act and react. Maybe this is what life is all about. You act and the world reacts and if you are great at acting, the world reacts greatly.
I don't know. I have never been able to answer that question. I just love it. I love doing what I am doing. It's similar to falling in love I guess. Why do people fall in love? Nobody has been able to answer that question, so maybe this is why I don't know what pushes me to act. It's art, pure art, to be able to enact somebody else's life whether it's fictional or non fictional. I want to hide behind it.
Behind what?
The mask.
I feel safe there. I feel that nobody can touch me or hurt me. The person behind this mask is a scared human being. I have lived a life filled with remorse, fear, insecurities and I want to run away from them. The characters I play give me a relief that I am alive. I can be a lover and a bandit and I can do it with much bravery and passion than I would live my real life. This is what keeps me alive or else I would have been dead.
Oh!
The lights, the costumes, the sets, the people, the stories all amalgamate to form a moment that feels real, that is true.It's like all negatives combine together to make a positive.
You know good actors have to be good observers. What do you think? Enacting a
beggar, or your neighbor, or your colleague,their every move, their every gait comes from observation.
[Sigh]
Sometimes I wish I could be invisible.
Why is that?
So that I can stand in the corner and just look at people. Look at how they behave. How they act and react. Maybe this is what life is all about. You act and the world reacts and if you are great at acting, the world reacts greatly.
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