"I got to understand a man in death that i didn't get the opportunity to understand in life," he says. "Life is short. We should be together, and you're perfect, and it could have been ... But that's a story he wrote, and that isn't the truth." The actor has changed his attitude towards people who may seem rude or inconsiderate on the surface but are really going through something they don't know about. He gives them the benefit of the doubt.