There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
Utopia means elsewhere.
With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.
I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?