Acting can serve as an effective form of therapy for individuals dealing with trauma.

“I read this book called The Body holds the score then if you ever heard of it and one of the most fascinating things about it is it talks about how acting and moving the body in like yoga have been proven to be the best forms of um uh antidepressant like without you know taking ssris”

Acting serves as a therapeutic escape that allows her to access and process deep emotions in a safe environment.

“I get to access all of that confusion and pain in my job and I get to like really feel it in like every fiber of my being but there's no like consequence and there's no like you're not really shouting at anyone or hurting someone or it's like it's all pretend but like the emotion is is real”

He views acting as a collaborative environment that provides insights into being a better human being.

“to train to become a better actor it gives me insight into being a better like human into a better me”

She believes that being an actor requires a commitment to being kind, nurturing, and full of love and joy.

“there's no it's not like it changes my job every day which is to wake up and be kind and nurturing and and full of love and joy. Yeah. That's my job.”

Kevin Interdonato views acting as a vital profession that helped him find himself and heal after returning from war.

“this lifestyle that I chose this this profession that I chose this this art that I've devoted myself to was was was my savior man”

He claims he is always looking to improve his performance because he has a mentality of wanting to be better than he was in the past.

“I look at myself and I'm like man I could have did that better I could have did this better I could have did this better and I just always have this mentality of like wanting to do things better than what I I did on camera what I've done in the past”

He believes in prioritizing the craft and hard work to maintain a long-term, sustainable acting career rather than just seeking celebrity status.

“let me always keep the craft at the Forefront and that's what's going to sustain me for the career I want”

He considers acting a childhood passion he pursued with a persistent, goal-oriented work ethic.

“I was like one of those freaky little kids that like I'm going to be an actor and you brought that up like you went to your mom and dad at a young age and said hey I think I want to do this I went to them I saw um the musical Oliver at a community theater okay wow and I saw all the little kids in it”

He believes acting and producing require the same dedicated work ethic and willingness to grind as an NFL career.

“I was willing to grind and do what I needed to do on my own to create my own opportunities and not wait for somebody to give them to me”

She believes that hard work is the primary requirement for becoming skilled at acting.

“And my sister is the same. Like, we both are aware that in order to be good at something, it's you have to work really hard at it.”

Sterling K. Brown believes in advocating for race-specific roles rather than race-blind casting to ensure authentic representation.

“When I first started in this industry, it was so much about race blind, you know, like putting me into a role that could have been intended for a white dude, you know, they would say, all ethnicities considered. And I think that's a good thing, but now I'm I'm looking for roles that say like, oh, we”

He believes the cast of the Lord of the Rings movies were not paid adequately for their work in such a successful trilogy.

“people would be astounded how little we go got paid like outside of the industry I think people be like oh you still got paid a lot in the industry people like wait you're in arguably one of the greatest trilogies of movies on that all time and you couldn't retire of it we couldn't get anywhere near”

The modern entertainment industry's prioritization of identity-based casting over talent is a destructive practice that he chooses to fight by producing his own work.

“It's too much to re-enter right now. And I have and I can Well, you thought it through obviously. Yeah. And I can go on stage and really, you know, there's a lot of people out there. They they're they're desperate for healing.”

Voice actors in the Star Wars franchise are treated poorly compared to live-action actors and should receive better compensation.

“They treat the actors poorly. Like they won't allow I shouldn't say this, but I'm I'm going to cuz it's not right. Um they wouldn't allow the voice actors from Rogue One to walk the press line at the same time as the live-action actors.”

She believes that maintaining a diverse set of interests beyond acting was crucial for her to remain well-rounded and avoid having her identity solely defined by the film industry.

“I had a lot of things outside of acting that I think kept me more well-rounded so that my identity did not completely get wrapped up in this industry that is very vapid and it is very based on vanity and selfishness and fame”

The industry's most famous and iconic actors often become disconnected from reality because they are perpetually surrounded by people afraid to challenge them.

“I do think that's a symptom of being surrounded for so many years by people that just laugh at whatever you say even if it doesn't make any sense and isn't funny at all because you're danny devito and nobody wants to ruffle your feathers”

Actors in the industry who stop listening to others and become surrounded by "yes men" will eventually produce work that suffers.

“if you don't surround yourself with people who check you yeah and tell you hey man that's not funny it shouldn't go on the show then your shit's gonna suffer”

He suggests that he became a superior actor only after he stopped identifying himself by his profession.

“I became a million times better actor when I decided I am done identifying myself with being an actor.”