It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
“It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.”
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It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
“It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.”
It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.
It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love.
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
Emotionally, I think you're going on a journey with the character, so you have to be present for each and every scene, and for me,one thing I like to do is step away between takes, away from everyone else, listen to some music, and just get into that place to help me perform.