Rick Glassman

Not that there's a problem with failing, but I don't wanna set myself up for this idea of I might be failing when I'm just trying to get in a mindset.

If I'm present, I believe that that's the best opportunity I have to be funny.

So if I'm not gonna be funny today,

Chances are it's because I wasn't present.

And if I was present and not funny, then I wasn't going to be funny anyway.

And one of the reasons I'm thinking of that is one of the ways that helps me do that is...

Well, you know, it's easy to say to be present as like affirmations, this idea of looking in the mirror and saying, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people love me, whatever.

Like, if I don't believe that, then he's not going to believe it.

So what can I believe?

And what I can believe is this idea of this, like,

acceptance versus getting yourself better.

I know I can be better.

I want to be better and I want to try and be better, but I'm about to go on stage in one minute.

This is the best I could be right now.

So this isn't about being better.

This is about fully accepting.

This is my, this is my best I have.

And then tomorrow I could be like, well, I wasn't prepared.

I remember a buddy of mine, uh, David Sullivan, who also is an actor and he coaches me as an, uh, when I, for, for things as an actor.

And I remember years ago, he was helping me for this audition.