Some inspiration for a dreary Chicago day:
“I think any actor who makes it through and when I say makes it through I don’t mean making millions and millions of dollars, but they keep at it. {They say} ‘for the rest of my life until my dying breath I am an actor’ — they are warriors. There is no other industry, no other profession where a person has to get up every morning and prove they can do their job. It’s like you’re interviewing for your job every Monday and not knowing if you are going to have it at the end of the day. If you really want to be an actor and not a novelty then studying is the name of the game. And we study not only by going to class, but by going to see theater, going to see films and watching and reading and listening to others’ experiences. Also, being open to what is going on in the world. If we don’t know what’s going on in the world or what happened in the past, then we are going to have a limited amount of material to mine from it. As actors that is what we are constantly doing; we are mining, mining for history and emotions, and that’s important.”
