Daily Inspiration Quote by Mark Roberts

A working actor admitting, almost breezily, that he can read Tarot and believes in ghosts is less a confession than a self-portrait of the job. Mark Roberts isn’t staking out a metaphysical manifesto; he’s pointing to a practiced comfort with the unseen. Acting trains you to treat absence like a partner: you speak to people who aren’t there, summon feelings on cue, and convince a room that an invented past is real enough to sting. Tarot, in that light, isn’t “mysticism” so much as a tool for narrative - a deck of prompts that turns anxiety and chance into a story you can walk through. Ghosts are the same impulse with better lighting: the sense that spaces keep impressions, that emotion lingers after the scene ends.

The line works because it’s casually double-edged. “I can” signals skill, not just belief - as if fortune-telling is another craft in the kit, like accents or stage combat. Pairing Tarot with ghosts also splits the difference between performance and sincerity: Tarot implies technique, ghosts imply vulnerability. The subtext is: I live by imagination, and I’m not embarrassed about the parts of imagination that frighten respectable people.

Coming from an actor born in 1921, it also glances at a century that swung between hard rationalism and popular occult revivals. The entertainment world has always been a magnet for superstition - opening-night rituals, lucky charms, whispered warnings - because precarious work breeds pattern-seeking. Roberts turns that into a quiet flex: call it irrational if you want; it’s how you stay porous enough to play someone else.