As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!