When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

