Hank Azaria

It became a recovery issue.

I was, as we say in the AA, restless, irritable, and discontent around... I would get startled by it, or not be in the mood, or I didn't know how to... And I didn't wanna be vibing people.

And worse than that, I had learned how to be diplomatic, polite, and calm and kind, ostensibly,

for the most part.

But in my head, I was going nuts.

It was like ruining the city for me.

I worked the steps around it.

Actually, as I did around alcoholism, like, what is this?

Why am I so resentful of this interaction?

What was it?

Some of it was something you brought up before.

I realized I was, to some extent, unhappy with my own place in show business.

It was like Herman's head thing.

It was like, I felt like people were coming up to me and saying, you're not George Clooney, you're Al Pacino.

You underachieved, didn't you?

I'm like, thanks for reminding me.

Or they'd say, oh, I love you in the birdcage.

And I'm like, okay, that was 30 years ago.

But even more, as I worked on this, the phrase that kept coming up was, I felt put upon.

I felt put upon in this moment.