Kevin Spacey: commitment

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…See, the interesting thing about Lester is facing the same fear, he seemed to be somehow liberated and accepted everything, and then saw the beauty of it. Because he got there. He was given the opportunity to reinvent himself and to try things he’d never tried, to ask questions he’d never asked. To trust his instincts and to become the best version of himself he could become. And so Dick Van Dyke, who has become an extraordinary friend of mine, Dick is 98 years old, and he says, “If I’d known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.” When I spend time with him, I’m just moved by every day. He gets up and he goes, “It’s a good day. I woke up.” And I learn a lot… I have a different feeling about death now than I did seven years ago, and I am on the path to being able to be in a place where I’ve resolved the things I needed to resolve, and I won’t probably get to all of it in my lifetime, but I certainly would like to be at a place where if I were to drop dead tomorrow, it would’ve been an amazing life. So Lester got there. It sounds like Dick Van Dyke got there. You’re trying to get there.…

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