How Fame and Power Can Change Actors' Behavior
Well, guys blame fame.
That's really... It's just too easy.
What it is, is fame makes everything too easy,
too accessible,
and it
just
makes you, uh, um, spoiled
in a sense. There's...
You're surrounded by yes people, and you really lose kind of your
touch with the people, sensitivity.
And the main thing is you become intolerant. Like,
"This person's so stupid.
This..." You're dismissive, and really, that's what power
does to certain personalities.
Actors
are, are sensitive instruments, but they're incomplete
psyches,
which makes them good actors. They love to bury
themselves in a character. When they come out of their characters,
going,
they get very un- uh, unsettled-
Mm
... and ill at ease. Put them on a set,
that's the reality. Coming home,
not real, not in control. So i- it can really,
uh, uh, force you to become
this, like, mini dictator.
You know,
and I've seen it all the time, and, and quite often it becomes
insufferable. It really does. And, uh, 'cause I did it.
You, you were-
Oh, I had the entourage. I did it. I had the limo.
I, I did it. That's why when I tell you a story- ...
it's coming because I was the fool.
I didn't observe it. I was it
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