I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.
Interpretation
Boredom can be detrimental, so one should seek variety in experiences.
In this quote, Alfred Molina expresses a deep-seated fear of boredom, reflecting a belief that monotony is detrimental to personal growth and creativity. To combat this, he emphasizes the importance of diversifying his work as an actor, suggesting that variety not only keeps life interesting but also fosters a more fulfilling existence.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to encourage artists to embrace diversity in their work.
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Your words and thoughts have physical power.
Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
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