Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that passion for the craft should outweigh the desire for the title of the profession.
Bradley Whitford's quote encourages individuals to focus on the love for their work rather than the pursuit of recognition for being in that field. It suggests that genuine passion and dedication to writing or acting will provide the resilience and sustenance necessary to thrive in challenging artistic careers.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a creative writing workshop.
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- _x000D_ preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
Human beings are the only creatures who have the ability to write down their goals and design their future. And here is why most of us don't. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present.
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
If you don't make bold moves, the world doesn't move forward.
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