The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.