Question: There is a phenomenon when a person, for example, an actor, goes on stage and works with the audience that he can’t live without it, he craves it. And when he meets his fans individually, he treats them contemptuously. Why?

Answer: This happens because, in general, he does not like people. He loves the mass, their next level, when they are connected to one another. Therefore, his attitude manifests itself either in an egoistic or altruistic way.

The artist loves a mass of people because they praise him and he gets energized. We know actors who are like a “little mouse” in everyday life. But suddenly he comes on stage and here he is Hamlet or the Moor. And in ordinary life nobody and nothing.

But he lives on stage because there he transforms into another character.

Have you ever been a prince in your life? No. But he has! He works as a prince for two or three hours every evening. It means a lot. And, of course, for this he loves the mass sitting in front of him. He does not like people individually because they do not give him the opportunity to stay in the image of a prince. This is a purely egoistic approach.

And there is an altruistic approach when in front of the artist there is a mass of people who want to somehow unite, then this is, of course, a field of activity for him. Either self-gratification or general enjoyment. Either you rise egotistically yourself, or you raise the mass by uniting it, lifting it up.

The audience rises up to a higher level thanks to the power that he gives it; rises higher means closer to the light, to the sun, as they say. At this time, a beneficial light bestows on them.

And then they descend, but this effect remains in them. And so, time after time, they begin to feel some kind of opportunity to rise in themselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Become a Star?” 5/14/11

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