Owen Wilson: The Pain Behind the Smile

"He always seemed very happy to me. . . . When I heard the news this morning, I was totally shocked and, quite honestly, saddened,"

"Seemingly Perfect Life"

"How could he be this successful and do something like that?"

"They have a very close knit family!"

These are just a few of the quotes and titles across the media that describe
the public Persona of Owen Wilson.

It's the public persona that we put on these stars that make them
larger than life. At the end of the day, they have struggles and problems
like the rest of us.

They are constantly under the Pressure of Perfection.

I found a few quotes by Owen Wilson that reveal some of his Inner Thoughts of
striving that I thought were interesting.

What are your thoughts?

"You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors."
Owen Wilson

Wilson on His Desire to Take on More Dramatic Roles: “The Life Aquatic” offered Wilson an opportunity to do a more straightforward, even serious, type of role.

Wilson says the idea of doing more dramatic roles appeals to him. “I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles. I think that sometimes with comedies, I try to keep stuff real, but especially with these big comedies, you have a burden to sort of try and deliver big laughs, and sometimes that can get into a sort of like craziness. It would be nice not to have that pressure on a movie [where] you could just kind of tell the story and be funny within that, where you don't have to go for the big moments or worry about that pressure.”

It seems to me that he has a yearning to have more dramatic roles to relieve some of the pressure he feels to "deliver" as expected. In the first quote he mentions that the Dramatic actors are like the "cool high school seniors" in Hollywood.

Acceptance and Esteem not only from Hollywood but from himself.

My prayers are with him and his family.