Taylor Kitsch admits to sidelining relationships for career

Taylor Kitsch, a Canadian actor, sat down for an interview with People where he opened up about his career and the sacrifices he has had to make for it.

First rising to fame through the role of Tim Riggins in the first season of Friday Night Lights, he muses about his life since then, "There's never going to be a balance. But I'm more conscious of the lack of balance now in my 40s than I was in my 20s and 30s."

"I was telling a buddy who's an actor, 'Man, I can't even get a dog yet. He was like, 'Man, I can't even buy more than four bananas, because that's how great my lack of commitment is.' And it's all a choice, and I think as you get older, you're like, 'Okay, you got to find these balances because life just goes so fast,’” he continued.

The actor added, "The catch-22 is I keep getting these great, fulfilling jobs. It's like, it does make me happy, and I love what I do. They're very intense roles, so you need to be super myopic doing them, and you got to push your relationships and everything else to the side."

Admitting that he tries to go for projects that are riskier, he elaborated, "I want to keep pushing and make sure I'm not getting comfortable. It's so much to go to work and you sacrifice a lot, willingly, so it better be worth it. Now, it's about the right stories and the people I'm working with. I'm way more comfortable with myself and who I am as a person and as an actor."

Moving on to his goals for the new year, the star concluded, "I'm going to Patagonia with two of my best friends on a two-week motorcycle ride to photograph the pumas. It's those things I want to start doing a lot more of."