Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
Interpretation
Acting requires bravery as it involves risking failure publicly.
This quote by Adam Driver emphasizes the inherent vulnerability that comes with acting, as performers must be willing to take risks and potentially fail in front of an audience. The courage to accept failure not only defines great actors but also illustrates a broader life lesson about embracing risks and overcoming the fear of judgment from others.
In practice
A motivational speech to actors at a drama school.
Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
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