It still happens to me when I read where I lose myself in it and I don’t know what the reality is, whether it’s my reality or their reality. And, frankly, that’s what actors do. I mean and I always tell everybody this that I didn’t know
Just like I didn’t intend to be a writer, I didn’t intend to be an actor and was just a kid who read a lot, a lot, a lot and then, you know, when you’re asked to read a lot in class, I just have a facility for it. I felt like I could hear it and I could hear the voices in the book and it was just there on the page. And I thought everybody was that way.
And so when I started doing, you know, after-school plays, it was just like reading a book. So for me even now, I’m working on a movie. You know, acting is the closest thing I could find to being in a story. So I consider myself
I don’t consider myself a performer at all. I don’t actually enjoy it. I don’t like public speaking. I don’t like anything that’s performance-oriented. I like acting because I want to be in the book. So I want to, you know, I still want to pretend and be in here.
In performing there’s an acknowledgement that there’s a reality outside of what you’re doing. There’s an audience watching. And in a lot of the acting that I do, I don’t want to acknowledge it. I only want to acknowledge the story.
