I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.