Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955

Charles Gresham:
I'm dead when I'm not doing a job of acting. You know, sometimes when I'm in my room, I go to the mirror, and I... I look into it, trying to see who I am, who the "me" is. I talk to myself. And all the characters I've ever played pass in front of me. And I'm every one of them, but that's all I am. There's no real me, only the characters. Don't you see? Then I... then I go back and I sit and I wait. I wait for somebody, somebody like you, Wayne, to call me, to bring me back to life again. I'm only real when I'm acting. The rest of the time I'm nothing. That's why I drink. Don't you see?