I Didn't Grow Up Identifying With Beauty.

It's Core To My Beliefs Now: Sometimes In Being Given A Challenge, You're Actually Being Given A Real Opportunity, And A Lot Of That Is How You Handle It. Do You Feel Sorry For Yourself Or Do You Think, All Right! I'll See What I Can Make Out Of This? I've Had That Over And Over. If I Hang Out In The Disappointment, I'll Just Be Disappointed All The Time.

The Best Part Of Getting To Do What You Like Is Just Doing It. That Doesn't Have To Do With Being Famous Or Even Successful Or Even Powerful. I See People In Life Who Are Just Doing A Job And Seem To Be Having A Good Time. And That's The Trick.

I'm Gonna Try To Talk About This In A Secular Way, But Where's The Spirituality Of Just Being A Person? I Think It Contributes To This Rise In Bad Manners And Mean Comments; People Are Being Driven By Seeking Something That's Just Designed To Keep Them Seeking Something. I'm Not Reducing People In This Age To Phone-addicted Dum-dums, But We Have To Remind Ourselves To Also Study Compassion And Inner Life As Well.

I Personally Was Driven To Be An Actor For The Love Of Telling A Story. It Was Very Closely Linked To Being A Reader As A Kid And Being Transported By Literature And Art. It Had Nothing - Zero - To Do With Anything Resembling Fame.

When The Creator Of The Show Is Gone, The Actors End Up Being The People Who Have Been There The Longest.