I have always been happiest when I put things in this exact order/subordination:
I am a person first. I am a career maker second.
Whenever I swap those, I get into wretched trouble.
Of course, what I have been mostly paying attention to as an adult is what it is to be a person. So it would make sense, in order for that to have any career value, to be a person first, anyway.
But even more importantly, if career comes first, then you are a career person and since you are what you do, then you are simply that and you slowly but surely become less interesting. Plus, you burn out and your ego gets inflated, takes a beating, rinse, repeat, blech.
Additionally, you could end up with a very skewed and sad perspective and a very strange face if you are single minded. Look at Goldie Hawn at the 2014 Oscars. She had an idea of her career, or something like that, coming first. She mutilated herself. If she had been a person first, she would not have ended up looking like ___________. There are so many sharp jokes that could be made at her expense. But really, sadly, she got caught up in a thought process that chucked herself first and put some misguided ambition in its place. It's not worth it. And it eats up your time and energy. And who you actually are.
Do not mutilate yourself. Anyone. Have a career. Second. Be a person. First.
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What is most tragic is that the mutilation of plastic surgery destroys and actor's very ability to act -- which is the transmission of feeling, thought, and intention to an audience. By paralyzing their faces to fit some godforsaken prefabricated image, these creatures are destroying their very ability to move the very audiences they are hoping their stretched faces will attract.
They destroy their ability to emote, as well as their ability to respond authentically to the people and circumstances in the reality of the film or play.
Consider this recent comment in a Salon.com article about dehumanization: "If a researcher disables your ability to imitate another’s facial expression, such as by asking you to hold a pen pursed between your lips or by injecting your face with Botox, your ability to understand what another person is feeling drops significantly. Botox dulls your social senses right along with your wrinkles."
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/02/the_psychology_of_hate_how_we_deny_human_beings_their_humanity/
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