With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Hugh JackmanRead
There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The anxiety of an actor comes from the uncertainty of how their work will be received once it's out of their control.
In this quote, Hugh Jackman expresses the duality of being an actor, highlighting the contrast between the collaborative and supportive environment during filming and the anxiety that arises once the production is completed and subjected to external processes like editing and marketing. The quote reflects the nature of creativity as a shared effort while also acknowledging the vulnerability that comes when the artist must let go of their work and face the audience's reaction.
Themes
AnxietyFilmingTeamworkCreativityCareer
In practice
Example use cases
In a film seminar discussing the pressures actors face post-production.
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Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.
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I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.
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