How Fame and Power Can Change Actors

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 is 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 that character

is when,

ugh, they get very un- uh, unsettled-

Mm

... and ill at ease. Put them on a set,

that's their 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, '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