Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me very few of the academic...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
