It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
You will be a failure until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
Experience already reduced to a group of impressions is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
To me the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Every experience feeds an actor and I've learned that depression is all around us.
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality basic human rights freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.