Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.
I get tired of myself pretty fast.
I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.
I wouldn't say that I'm aggressive in going out to find work and stuff like that. I just sort of, if something comes along, and it's something I like, and they want to hire me, I'll do it. I won't just do anything.