Oh. Okay. Can I have the salt back, then?
You’re right that success in acting is very difficult, and I fully expect that if I attain it it will be more because of luck than because of talent. And I doubt that it will be because of hard work, because I fully plan on not doing much of that at all. But if, despite those things, I still manage to become successful, my first selfless act as a celebrity will be to let all of my unsuccessful friends still be friends with me. Does that count?
I’m kidding. I don’t know. It’s hard enough to be selfless as a non-celebrity, I don’t see why it would necessarily get any easier down the line. If I am ever drowning in money I imagine I’ll try to give as much as I can to good causes, but that doesn’t strike me as a particularly genuine response to the question since everybody says that. I might also start some kind of national book club where the only rule for selection is that the book has to be fucking awesome. Could that help the world? I don’t know.
I feel like linking selflessness with some vague, undefined, unlikely definition of future success kind of misses the mark. We should all strive to be selfless no matter where we are in life. Putting it off doesn’t help anybody. I mean, if I succeed as an actor, that’s great. But I’d prefer to succeed as a good person regardless of that. Does that make sense?
