Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.

在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员,也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。

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you have to be well-informed as to how to go about being an actor.

你要消息灵通，知道如何当演员。

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I really feel like I have what it takes to be an actor.

我真的觉得我有做演员的资质。

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And that's in preparing to be an actor.

这是为当演员做的准备。

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