I finally saw Walk The Line last night and it made me think of a few things primarily acting and fatherhood.

Kristen Bell said something absolutely perfect about acting at the Q&A in Austin. The question had been about who her influences were and she said she isn't really influenced by the careers of other actors, but that she finds moments of honesty in other actors' performances and she tries to infuse her acting with as much honesty as possible. I was reminded of this statement while I was watching Walk The Line. It's the same thing I've always felt about good acting. There are moments that just blow my mind, and Reese Witherspoon blew my mind. The thing is that people, in real life, have conflicting emotions, times when we can't quite put a finger on what we're feeling or you can but you're feeling a million different things. It's virtually impossible to put in words on a page and probably equally difficult to direct, so in film and television it's all on the actors shoulders to bring those conflicting emotions to life. The best is when not only can the actor bring all those conflicting emotions to life on screen, but can make you, the viewer, feel them too. I'm not describing it very well, but I refuse to believe that it is my own failing, I think it's really kind of impossible to describe.

Walk The Line had a lot of daddy issues and it really just made me so glad, again, that I have such a great dad. My dad is a musician, he's amazing, he has such a fantastic voice and he's a great song writer and I think he could have been big. He chose not to tour around playing clubs and getting himself, his name, his music out there. I'm pretty sure he made that choice because of his kids. Me and my brother. He was a great dad, he took me to my dance classes and my doctors appointments, whenever I got sick at school and had to come home he would pick me up, he was always there, he's always been so supportive of anything I wanted to do, if thre is one thing he might be better at than making music it's being a dad. I don't want to say that Jhonny Cash was a bad father, but he wasn't the best. My dad was the best.