A long time back I saw this movie The Definition of Insanity (2004) at a film festival. It is one of the bleaker portrayals I’ve seen of the life of a struggling actor. The main character played by writer/director/star Robert Margolis is shown to be totally miserable at the acting hustle, but he’s not really shown to be all that talented or accomplished, he’s just not quite good enough to be a successful actor and can’t accept it. It’s one example I can think of that shows the life of the suffering artist as not necessarily having a grand payoff.