Sir Derek Jacobi

Want or Need

Sir Derek Jacobi is being interviewed on the Daily Bacon on Radio 5 Live www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dailybacon  and asked what advice he would give to someone saying they wanted to be an actor. ‘If they ‘want’ to be an actor,’ he says, ‘I would advise them not to do it. If they need to be an actor then,’ he said, ‘they need to be prepared to work incredibly hard. The inference being that to be a good actor, you need not to be able to exist without being one. I wondered if that applied to me with this Ocean Rowing challenge?

What’s the difference between obsession, addiction and need? I know one thing. It is very selfish and I don’t like that part of it. Aren’t we all driven to something?