I think he could've said "My life can't compete with that," maybe in a mocking kind of way, like, "Yeah, of course my life isn't as cool as this thing you do for a living"? Keeping in mind that both of them were really, really drunk at the time.
I dunno; like I said, my first reading of it was basically the same as yours, that Terry was saying he had no comparable experiences and was otherwise agreeing that acting was The Best Thing Ever. I just happened to wonder this time, perhaps because I'd just finished attempting to write some Oliver/Geoffrey subtext into my current piece...
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Date: 2010-12-30 01:07 am (UTC)I think he could've said "My life can't compete with that," maybe in a mocking kind of way, like, "Yeah, of course my life isn't as cool as this thing you do for a living"? Keeping in mind that both of them were really, really drunk at the time.
I dunno; like I said, my first reading of it was basically the same as yours, that Terry was saying he had no comparable experiences and was otherwise agreeing that acting was The Best Thing Ever. I just happened to wonder this time, perhaps because I'd just finished attempting to write some Oliver/Geoffrey subtext into my current piece...