Art & Creativity Quote by Glenn Quinn

There is a very actorly tightrope walk in Quinn's line: he wants to admit he likes the attention without getting tagged as the kind of person who needs it. "Not to sound egomaniac" is less a disclaimer than a stage direction, an attempt to control the audience's judgment before it lands. The sentence then swerves into a revealing pleasure: "get under people's skin". That's not just fame; it's impact. He isn't talking about being loved in a bland, poster-on-the-wall way. He's talking about provoking a reaction strong enough to make strangers move their hands, put feelings into words, and send them to him. The flattery comes from effort, not applause.

The subtext is about validation as fuel. When he says it "helps you during the day", he's hinting at the work's emotional economy: acting involves long stretches of uncertainty (auditions, cancellations, being misread), and fan mail becomes a private, portable proof of value. That "write..". trailing off is doing a lot, too; it suggests letters that go beyond the polite, maybe obsessive, maybe intense. He recognizes the thin line between admiration and intrusion, but he frames it as something he can metabolize into resilience.

Context matters: Quinn came up in a pre-social media celebrity culture where feedback arrived delayed, curated, and tactile. A letter was a commitment. He's describing the small, human buzz of being seen - and the pragmatic way performers turn that buzz into enough confidence to keep showing up.