Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
. . . Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.
I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.
[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.