I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and