Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.
Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?
I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?
The secret is to success sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
In America it was later part of the comic routine of:
You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.