We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.