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Kerry Bishe
New Zealander
Actress
Born:
May 1
,
1984
About
Great
Love
Me
People
You
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I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.
Kerry Bishe
Truth
Myself
Great
Me
People
Some People
Fall
Think
Other
Others
Some
About
Someone
Like
Most
Exercise
Camp
Than
Getting
While
Themselves
Acting
Second
I want to make art that is helpful, that's useful to people, that starts fruitful conversations. That makes you think about a question that you hadn't considered before.
Kerry Bishe
Art
You
People
Before
Think
Starts
Considered
About
Make
Makes
Question
Want
Fruitful
Conversations
Useful
Helpful
I watch a lot of classic movies - my TV guilty pleasures are 'The Wonder Years' or the original 'MASH' show.
Kerry Bishe
Pleasures
Guilty
TV
Classic
Mash
Years
Lot
Wonder
Movies
Show
Original
Watch
The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
Kerry Bishe
Love
Job
Feeling
Edit
Tightrope
Juggling
Walking
Tiny
Movie
Little
Storytelling
Cut
Really
Your
Little Thing
Actor
Thing
I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
Kerry Bishe
Myself
Good
Selfish
Women
People
Brilliant
Rare
Think
Vain
Those
Television
See
Feel
Like
Fallible
Representing
Capacities
Really
Who
Media
Things
Keeping secrets is hard.
Kerry Bishe
Secrets
Hard
Keeping
It's a whole series of accidents that makes a show into a hit. A show can be fantastic and still not be a hit. You just have to hit the Zeitgeist at the right moment, and there are so many factors that you're not in control of.
Kerry Bishe
You
Accidents
Control
Right Moment
Factors
Makes
Still
Hit
Just
Fantastic
Show
Moment
Many
Whole
Series
Zeitgeist
Right
When I'm working, it's just about doing the best I can with whatever dialogue is in front of me today. You can't worry about the other thing.
Kerry Bishe
Today
Best
Me
You
Whatever
Other
Worry
About
Dialogue
Doing
Front
Just
Working
Thing
Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.
Kerry Bishe
Life
Me
About
More
Obsessed
Questions
End
Itself
Asking
Means
Acting
Doing a one-person play feels like you've just discovered you had a superpower.
Kerry Bishe
You
Superpower
Had
Feels
Like
Doing
Discovered
Just
Play
I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.
Kerry Bishe
Drive
Characters
Obviously
Story
Autonomy
Interested
Who
Playing
I'm not interested in political theater.
Kerry Bishe
Political
Not Interested
Theater
Interested
I am sick to my stomach, just, all the time. The tools in my toolbox to address that are choosing jobs where I can be a full, complete person, where I have some agency and autonomy.
Kerry Bishe
Time
Sick
Tools
Complete
Address
Complete Person
Jobs
Some
Am
Person
Stomach
Just
Where
Autonomy
Agency
Full
Choosing
I think it's a lot harder to forgive yourself for your own mistakes.
Kerry Bishe
Yourself
Mistakes
Own
Think
Lot
Forgive
Your
Harder
The kinds of people that we see on television making science are old white guys with crazy hair, and those aren't the only people making science.
Kerry Bishe
Crazy
Science
People
Old
Hair
White
Those
Television
Kinds
See
Guys
Only
Making
If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.
Kerry Bishe
Character
You
TV
TV Show
Week
Never
Know
Going
Happen
Your
Show
My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.
Kerry Bishe
Find
Brother
Totally
Impressive
Which
Biochemistry
I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.
Kerry Bishe
Love
Will
Joan
Hopefully
Hamlet
Play
I have a whole life in New York and a life in L.A. and to live one-third of the year in a place that isn't one of those is kind of a bummer.
Kerry Bishe
Life
Year
Live
Those
Kind
One-Third
New
Bummer
York
New York
Place
Whole
Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.
Kerry Bishe
Me
Sometimes
Claustrophobic
Smaller
Feel
Over
Makes
Am
Than
Role
Same
Playing
It's more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn't that they have to be good people. It's that they have to be people.
Kerry Bishe
Good
Women
People
Complicated
Good People
Important
Complete
More
Perfect
Point
Opposed
Represent
Whole
Humans
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