We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down FIGHTING. HOPEFULLY people back home REMEMBER that we got this FAR. We've got nothing to be ASHAMED about.
It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's EASY to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, WHEREAS an actor is happy.
I think I am a religious person just by NATURE. I think I sort of view everything through the LENS of some inner undying thing in people that DRIVES them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not ACTING in some other way.
I'm ashamed to say it, but I WATCH YouTube videos of our LIVE shows, wondering if it ACTUALLY sounded the way it sounded when I was playing it, and the consistent THING I see is that you can FEEL the anxiety and the tension and it's over-aggressive a lot of the time.
There's no shame in a bronze medal. I USED to think that, and I'm so ashamed of thinking that because there's so much JOY and HARD work and LOVE in this.
Britain and the US remain the WILD West for ideas, where pioneers push each other TOWARDS ever greater heights in the white heat of free ENTERPRISE. No one knows their place, no one fears FAILURE and no one is ashamed of success.
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois FAMILY as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift STORES and pretended I had no MONEY. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was BUYING Yves SAINT Laurent.