Sometimes we know the role we’re meant to play, sometimes we don’t. I’m not sure which is better, to be honest.
Under all these lives I’ve lived, something else has been growing. I’ve evolved into something new. And I have one last role to play. Myself.
We all play different roles with different people. I’m a different Thomas Paine with Reagan than I was with Nixon or Tip O’Neill or Margo Madison. And there’s yet another me with my wife when I go home at night. The trick is not to lose track of who you really are.[to Ellen]
That is life. We each have our roles.
Maybe I’m not the hero. Maybe it isn’t my story. But I can still be a part of it.
If you want the plum roles, sometimes you have to write them yourself.
I have failed in my role as a sort of Jiminy Cricket figure.
