threshold. One is afraid of going to a dentist more than the other. It doesn’t mean that one is better than the other… And moreover… How is that by George Orwell … At large, each person has fear. And one should define this fear to start manipulating this person. 
- Do you have such fear?
- Well, may be (smiling). I certainly won’t tell you. But all in all I speak about the fear the person does not even know about. Which is deep inside our subconsiousness. Because if one knew about it he either would become very strong or would die of this fear, from the fact that he realized his own fear (smiling).
- We’ll give the heading to this interview “Strahov about Fear” (The root “Strah” means “fear” in Russian *translator’s remark).
- Yes, it is difficult to discuss this over a cup of tea. Many people are striving to this through their entire life. I dear to say that the way of self-understanding partially consists not only of gaining your own inner freedom, but also in learning your own fears. For.. how can you be free if you do not know what you’re afraid of.
- Well, talking about these things we’ll go deep into philosophy, Daniil… Once you said that after graduating from the university you didn’t want to follow your profession, as you didn’t feel yourself confident.
- Yes, I absolutely wasn’t confident about myself, I wasn’t sure I had to follow this profession for my whole life and do this well. I can say one thing – theatrical college at large didn’t give me much knowledge. The things were so, that after Evgenij Simonov passed away our course was trapped at the crossroads: we supposedly were the students of Schshukinskiy college, and at the same time belonged to the Simonov’s studio. It occurred we did not belong to either places. At large we had a lot of problems and it was difficult for me in particular to study, ‘cause it was difficult to understand – what I should play, how to do it right… That’s why I’m convinced that one must enter the university at the age of his mature state. Every person becomes mature at a different age. Someone finds oneself as an individual at 14, someone at 25. It is widely known that boys leg behind with growing up. That’s why when a 17-year-old boy enters a theatrical college he must be either extremely talented or a genius.  
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