Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.
This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.