You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
Interpretation
Pursuing challenges that intrigue you can resonate with others.
This quote encourages individuals to seek out challenges that stimulate their curiosity and interest, suggesting that when one engages in compelling pursuits, those experiences can also captivate others. It emphasizes the connection between personal exploration and the impact it can have on an audience, underscoring the importance of authenticity in one's endeavors.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage creativity in the workplace.
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when Iβm inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
Like every New Yorker, I know this place is magic. I know this place is amazing. I know that we have come back time and time again from a great recession, from high crime rates, from 9/11, from crisis after crisis.
Itβs one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is.
I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
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