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
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Storytellers must confront uncomfortable emotions and aspects of their characters to fulfill their creative responsibilities.
In this quote, Hugh Jackman reflects on the often challenging and uncomfortable journey that storytellers must embark on when crafting narratives. He emphasizes that, for the sake of authenticity and depth in storytelling, one must explore and portray all the complex emotions and situations that characters experience, even if it means facing difficult or unwanted aspects of those characters within oneself. This is part of the duty that comes with being a storyteller, as it enriches the narrative and resonates with the audience on a deeper level.
Themes
StorytellingEmotionsCharactersDutyArt
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a writers' workshop to inspire writers to embrace the full spectrum of their characters' emotions.
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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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