Respect Is More Than Giving

Most Drama In Our Lives Is Really Rather Squalid.

Actors Are Able To Trick Themselves Into Treating Anything As If It's Fantastic. It's A Kind Of Madness Really.

We Have Newsreaders Behaving Like Actors, Lowering Their Voices If It's A Sad Story, As If We Didn't Know It's A Sad Story. There Isn't A Single Cool Newsreader.

We Are Pre-disposed For Fantasy, There Is A Natural Impulse For Human Beings To Want To Get Off Their Heads Or Out Of Their Heads In Something In A Substance Or A Drink Or An Idea Or A Religion Which Will Comfort Them And Make Life Exciting.

My Capacity As A Monk Was To Passionately Believe Utter Nonsense, And When You're An Actor You Have To Do The Same Thing. Also, Christianity Used To Have A Lot To Do With Self-loathing And An Acceptance Of Criticism And Things Like That Which Is Terribly Important For Actors.