If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

I'm going to quit writing.