I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.
When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.