“An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.”
“But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.”
“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”
“A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.”
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”