The ascetic actor

 "The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer." Adam Smith

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April 20th 2021

In a theoretical sense I am unsure what word is correct. Irony or tragedy. I am the furthest thing from a trend setter you can imagine.

Yet I point myself toward not being in the movie industry as an actor.

If my inhibitions are correct I find myself between tragedy and irony.

It is a tragedy not being in the movie industry for the same reason it is hard to find someone on the same level of honesty as I think of it.

Irony is a model for free thinking individuals and are born from myself as a creative.

This is the battle I feel within.

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April 20th 2026

I wrote this in 2021 and it still applies.

You know. It just strikes me. It's odd that I am different - to the point - it completely makes me the actor I want to be. I might be the guy everyone sees as distorted in his thinking. But I know what is acting. That is enough. Enough to know that because I am different makes me do acting in a way that's never been done before.

The ascetic actor knows how to see through the fog.

- Marco