Cracked gold theatrical mask beside a low cluster of red poppies on dark teal

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Lee Remick

Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were not an actress.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Acting is described as unsettling, but the imagined alternative would be worse. The speaker therefore measures the profession against what its absence would do to her. That comparison makes the difficulty of the work compatible with needing it, rather than a reason she should abandon it.

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