“A self-destructive person is basically a person that makes six bad decisions a year. You know what I mean? … That's 359 days of being fine. But those six bad decisions a year will fuck up your whole life.”
The Interview · In-Depth Interviews · October 2026
David Marchese asked Rock about talented people he has known whose careers never took off. Rock's point is that self-destruction rarely looks like constant chaos; a handful of bad nights a year can be enough.
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I can't say that. I wish I could say, I'd say that off camera. There's a bunch of people, the self-destructive thing, that self-destructive thing is a really sad thing,
or just someone who's whose ultimate level of success did not the
thing about self-destructive too. Yeah, it's like people don't realize people go, okay, the year is 365 days, right? And if I want to party, who cares? If I, what I'm trying to say is a self-destructive person is basically a person that makes six bad decisions a year. You know what I mean? It seems like a little, you know what I mean? That's 359 days of being fine. But those six bad decisions a year will fuck up your whole life. So, you know,
how many bad decisions a year? I don't know. I
don't know. I mean, you know, show business, it's like the Olympics. And in the Olympics, the difference between first and last can be less than a second sometimes. You know, less than a second. So I
want to ask something about the movie, another theoretic question about the movie. Misty Green in theaters. So pay 24. Do you think that there were ideas that you had about women or men and women that you had to examine or think through in order to credibly create the character of Misty Green?…
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