"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."

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"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

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"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."

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"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

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