We Want To Be Seen For Who

I Always Wonder About People's History And Their Lives, Especially People That Are A Little Bit More Distant, Who Obviously Have Had Some Kind Of A Thing And You Know There's Some Reason Why They're Not Able To Connect. It's Not Because They Don't Want To. They Don't Have The Ability.

You Have To Learn To Deal With Your Own, For Want Of A Better Word, Insecurities, Fears. They Don't Go Away. And That's Normal. It's Human. You Don't Ever Really Want To Lose That. What You Want To Do Is Learn To Manage It And To Work With Yourself. But There's A Part Of You That Has Anticipation And Fear. And So The Important Thing To Know Is That There's Nothing Wrong With That And That That's Normal. You Have To Learn How To Deal With It, Certainly, But It Doesn't Keep You From Doing It. And That Doesn't Go Away Ever.

We All Perform Our Lives In A Way. And The Actor Is A Perfect Metaphor To Get At That Theme Of "how Do We Find Our Authentic Selves?" And That We All - Whether We're Actors Or Not - Perform Ourselves. As A Way Of Searching. As A Way Of Fumbling Around And Trying To Say, Is This My Voice? Is This Who I Am?

I Don't See Myself As Competing With Other Actresses. I Mean, I Went Through A Time When I Was In New York, And I Was Going To Lots Of Auditions And Trying To Get Parts, But Even Then, You're Not Really Competing With The Other Actresses. There Is A Competition Going On, But It's Not Like Something You Can Win In That Way.

As An Actor, You Want To Be Open To The Unexpected. So In Order To Be Open To That, You Do Have To Get Out Of Your Discursive Mind Just Like In Any Creative Process, This Isn't Just About Acting. So You Have To Learn A Little Bit How To Work With Your Own Mind.