Acting 101 from E.E. Cummings

"Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human can be taught to be.
Why?
Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you are a lot of other people: but the moment you are being, you're nobody but yourself. To be nobody but yourself-in a world which is doingits best night and day to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any hman being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Does this sound dismal?
it isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth" - E.E. Cummings