I understood immediately why Charlie was telling me this story. It stuck with me for a long time. Life’s on the wire, man. That’s my acting, my life. When I work, I’m on the wire. When I’m going for it. When I’m taking chances. I want to take chances. I want to fly and fail. I want to bang into something when I do it, because it’s how I know I’m alive. It’s what’s kept me alive. It’s like I would say years later, when I would have other aspiring actors ask me from time to time, “How come you made it and I didn’t? I always wanted to.” I would tell them, “You wanted to. I had to.”
