Hahaha I love your rant. : )
Yeah I love love LOVE acting. I've been in tons of shows at my community theatre, from Oliver! to a TON of Shakespeare. Plays are kind of my life. And musicals, too, haha. I did a camp this summer in which I was Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, and then the musical was Sweeney Todd, and I played Toby. : P
At my school, though, I've been in By Jeeves, Moby Dick, The Laramie Project, Once On This Island, and now we're doing Cat's Cradle, which is exciting. : )
Yeah, basically the way they get into their character. That's probably the only reason I follow actors' regular lives, is to see how they normally are, versus how they are in-character. I think it's quite, quite interesting. And sometimes I can get inspiration from their performances to utilise in one of mine; if I see similarities between their character and a character I'm playing, that is, of course. : P
Hahaha good reason to watch it. ; )