Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
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Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor (1960) |
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Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1831) |
Charles Babbage, Mathematician (1871) |
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor (1931) |
Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1955) |
Walt Kelly, Cartoonist (1973) |