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.
“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”
“Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.”