The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

