“One doesn’t act to earn bread… One acts to lie, to forget oneself,
to be different from one’s real self. If you act the roles of heroes it is
because you are cowardly. If you act the roles of saints it is because you
are a vile person. One acts because one has been a liar since birth and,
above all, one acts because one would go mad not acting…”
(Vittorio Gassman)
Smooth does not lie and does not contradict itself;
it steps into the limelight to act itself.
