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.
“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”
“Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.”