Motivation Daily by Motiversity - Peter Dinklage | This is Why Only 1% SUCCEED and What 99% Are Not DOING

Episode Date: December 2, 2022

One of the Most Inspiring Speeches ever heard. Listen to this until the end. Incredible Motivational Speech from the Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage aka Tyrion Lannister.Peter Dinklage initially struggled to find work as an actor, partially because he refused to take the roles typically offered to actors with his condition, such as "elves or leprechauns.' He worked at a data processing company for SIX YEARS after being unable to pay rent with a failed business attempt starting a theater company. As of 2018, he has won 11 awards from 58 nominations for his success as an actor. Don't give up on your dreams!"Don't search for defining moments, they will never come." - Peter DinklageMusic:BorrtexReally Slow Motion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. I had so many dreams of where I wanted to go,

who I wanted to be, and what I wanted to do. theater companies I wanted to start with classmates, movies I wanted to be in, directors I wanted to work with, stories I needed to tell. It might take a little time, I thought, but it would happen. What I didn't have was cash, a bank account, a credit card, or an apartment. I just had debt. A big, hungry, growing larger, every moment, debt. Packed the life that I knew with socks and a toothbrush into my backpack,

and I slept on couch after couch, after couch, after couch, at Friends Apartments in New York until I wore out their rent-paying roommates welcome. I dusted pianos at a piano store on Ludlow Street for five months. I worked on the property of a Shakespeare scholar for a year pulling weeds and removing bees' nest. I went on unemployment once, but not for long. I couldn't handle the guilt. Eventually, I was able to pay rent for a spot on the floor of an apartment on the Lower East Side, but my roommate had a breakdown and disappeared.

And then, finally, after two years of job and couch surfing, I got a job in application processing. as a data enterer at a place called professional examination services. And I stayed for six years. Six years. From the age of 23 to 29. Well, they loved me there. I was funny. I wore black, no cape, no tights.

I smoked in the loading docks with the guys from the mailroom, and we shared how hungover we all were. I called in sick almost every Friday because I was out late the night before. I hated that job, and I clung to that job. Because of that job, I could afford my own place. My dream of running a theater company with my friend and fellow Bennington graduate Ian Bell had died.

When I was 29, I told myself, the next acting job I get, no matter what it pays, I will, from now on, for better or worse, be a working actor. I got a low-paying theater job in a play called Imperfect Love, which led to a film called Thirteen Moons with the same writer, which led to other roles, which led to other roles. And I've worked as an actor ever since.

I didn't know that would happen. At 29, walking away from data processing, I was terrified. Ten years in a place without heat, six years at a job I felt stuck in. Maybe I was afraid of change. Are you? And so at 29, in a very long last, I was in the company of the actors and writers and directors. I'd sought out that first year, that first day after school.

I was, I am, by their sides. Raise the rest of your life. life to meet you. Don't search for defining moments because they will never come. The moments that define you have already happened and they will already happen again. It passes so quickly, so please bring each other along with you. You just get a bit derailed, but soon something starts to happen. Trust me, a rhythm sets in. Just try not to wait. Until like me, you're 29 before you find it. And if you are, that's fine too.

Some of us never find it. But you will, promise you. You are already here. You'll find your rhythm or continue the one you have already found. Don't wait until they tell you you are ready. Get in there. Sing. Might say you are not allowed to yet.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. My parents didn't have much money, but they struggled to send me to the best school. And one of the most important things they did for me is that once I graduated, I was on my own. Financially, it was my turn. This made me very hungry, literally. I couldn't be lazy. At the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time. But I just sort of, I had some perseverance in terms of what I wanted to do and what I didn't want to do.

And I think no is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger. So I used that word maybe too much, but it also helped me with the finding roles that I did like. We burn very brightly. Please don't ever stop. Don't bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready.

Show it. Do it. What did Beckett say?