Why be an actor?

IN MY OPINION;

WILLIAM REYNOLDS;

WHY DO 'YOU' WANT TO BE AN ACTOR?

Why are we doing this?

It’s important to ask ourselves this question.

Do you ever stop and ask yourself why you want to act? Or create? Or live your life as an artist?

Sometimes we lose connection to—or allow the business to contaminate us—the original reasons why we wanted to create. And for that reason alone, it’s important to revisit the deeper reasons we call ourselves artists, actors.

If it’s for the applause—that will fade away. If it’s for the adulation, that will be replaced by someone younger, hotter, smarter being the new flavor of the month. If it’s for approval, acceptance, worthiness, or love—you won't ever find it anywhere outside of yourself. You can’t get it from a teacher or lover or friend or parent or casting director or agent.

You have to start doing it for you. Find the reasons why you wanted to do it in the beginning. To create. To express. To have fun. To be human. To actually discover yourself.

Those are the real reasons we’re doing it, and we’re not even aware of it. We’re not even aware of the deeper forces at play within ourselves that compel us to make art. To tell stories. To feel. To emote. To risk. To share. To live life courageously and vulnerably as an artist, an actor. A REAL LIVING BREATHING ACTOR...THAT'S WHAT I AM.

THIS IS 'YOU'.