Acting doesn't suffice.
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.
I'm not doing my work for constant success.
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.