Actors, at least this actor at this point in time, can be prone to putting too much responsibility on their own shoulders for the success or failure of a project. I suppose that thinking began to creep in when I started doing leading roles. I had been laying bricks for over a decade and had never really stopped and reflected on the journey. It had been a long road, so the progress was hard to quantify. But the time had served me well. I was twelve years older and was growing into—Curt Conway’s favorite term—my instrument.
