"I didn't have any training. When I first started acting, I was just crap. And since then, I've still been kind of figuring it out job by job. I made a lot of mistakes along...
More »"I didn't have any training. When I first started acting, I was just crap. And since then, I've still been kind of figuring it out job by job. I made a lot of mistakes along the way, particularly when I was younger. I was just terrible, and I remember thinking: 'Shit, should I do this? should I be doing acting?'"
"I could see where I was going wrong. That's when I stepped back: 'Well hang on, at least I'm honest enough to say that I'm bad. If I can see what I'm doing wrong, then I can change it.
"As soon as I figured that out, I was like: 'Oh, OK, I can change what I was doing, I can be self-critical, I can work from that.' So I kept learning, did a job, finished it, looked at it, and sort of tore it to pieces, and tore myself to pieces, then improved on the next."
"I'm constantly scared and constantly in fear, and that's kind of what keeps me at it, kind of what drives me because it keeps it exciting. It keeps testing me."
"The power of belief, in a sense -- it's one of the strongest of all," he said. "And like religion, if you strongly believe in something, it comes true and it becomes a reality. In acting, I find that as well. If you believe it, you discover a truth and it's quite spiritual.... Along that path, in discovering that character, you discover a lot about yourself."
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