We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.
I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.
We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.
