When I finished the series, I wasn’t going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don’t think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.
I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn’t have any friends, I didn’t fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.
I would never point a finger at anyone and say, ‘They lived their life badly.’ I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.
Sometimes I read a script and it’s obvious from early on that it’s one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn’t quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don’t think I’ll ever do that again.
There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
I didn’t pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.
I’m sure with a production that’s not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.
When I think of normality I think of mediocrity.
Sometimes having a big amount of time is a gift, because by the time you’re at the end of the run you feel like you’ve figured it out finally or discovered everything you can about the character. Sometimes that’s not the case.
I think we’re tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.
I’ve seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater – especially a long production – how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.
I am more spontaneous than my character.
I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don’t generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I’m starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.
I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.
I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
After I did nine years of a television series, I didn’t want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.
We can only make ourselves the victim.