David Morrissey

And then there's the consequences of the people around you with you pushing yourself.

I have done jobs that has taken me away from home, that have meant that I'm absent, rather than be where arguably I should have been.

And so that's been a trade-off that sometimes I regret.

It's really interesting that because talking about Michael Bryan before and stuff, I wanted to be an actor.

And the thing I wanted to be was I wanted to be authentic.

And for me, what that was, was authenticity was always in the bad stuff.

It was always in the gutter.

It was always in pain.

It was always in stress and broken hearts and stuff like that.

It could never be in joy or love.

It couldn't be frivolous.

That was not authentic for me.

And so I spent years pursuing this authenticness, which was banging my head against a brick wall and being miserable, basically.

I felt that that's where it was.

You know, someone like De Niro banging his head against the cell wall, that was acting authentic.

And then I suddenly, through sobriety and stuff, I suddenly realized that you can be authentic and have fun.

You can have joy.

You can have love.

You can have connection.

That's just as authentic as anything else.