Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

