I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
“I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.”
— Elliot Cowan · Actor
The World Motivation
I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
“I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.”
— Elliot Cowan · Actor
I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.
If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.
I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.