when he lost courage when he felt like just giving up just lie down and not get
up again he would recite it and it would give him the what he needed to keep
going
the other night that covers me black as the pit from pole to pole I learned it
when I was in school yeah did you believe yeah I think whatever God there
may be from my unconquerable soul the fell clutch of circumstance I have not
cried aloud under the bludgeonings of fate my head is bloody but unbowed
beyond this place of Wrath and tears looms but the shadow of the shade
he had the minister of the year's finds and shall find me unafraid matters not
how Strait the gate now punishment charged the scroll I am the master of my
fate I am the captain myself your job as an actress to give it your best shot
each every time so yes I'm going into it with the idea that I'll play it to the
best of my ability and they wouldn't give it to me
the role if they didn't think I was capable of pulling it off oh I wouldn't
take it if I didn't think I was capable of pulling it off like I don't say his
first time when I was 8 years old I played a little boy blue in a pageant
power one of the things that was aware of that
I own the stage at 8:00 so no it isn't far off in America but we still and we
still here don't abandon the idea that it isn't finite it isn't finite if you
were born where were you born me yeah Baton Rouge Louisiana batteries General
Hospital you know Louisiana I was born in Memphis Tennessee
I had a long haul from where I came from to here but here we are right so proof
is in the proof of the pudding is in the eating and here we sit at the dining
table but it's hard to when you say that to some people because they say oh there
you go with a pull yourself up by the bootstraps thing and you know you're
just being respectable not everybody can do that
look everybody can but it doesn't courage courage is the
key to life itself a lot of people who are born in
situation of us survive just I'll never get out of this so they won't I say to
people say well I would like to have done so and so and so so you could have
done it so when I couldn't get out of here man the bus runs every day exactly
right yeah you exist if there if there if you can conceive it in your mind if
you can think of it you can do it that's the human condition again we can imagine
that we can do it right and I think that that the condition of each individual
human got on spades the very first time when I was 8 years old I was brilliant
then I got on stage again four years later when I was 12
brilliant again so by the time I was 13 it was pretty much a foregone conclusion
and everybody else's mine teachers parents that acting was gonna be my
thing I hadn't
like made a conscious decision I'm going to be an act I don't think you do I
think you just that's what you do there for us because I was it as it turns out
I was romanticizing that whole idea you know we were refighting World War two
as I was growing up so we had all these heroic movies and I fell in love with
the idea of flying and then when I got into the Air Force had just big
eye-opener that racism was rampant there also and that I didn't I not is
qualifying or suit it's it's better word for military life
that kind of
unquestioning obedience to a lot of things that I think of stupid didn't
quite go over well so when I got out I was I was an early discharge it was
almost dishonorable you know because I just really didn't fit but the catalyst
actually was I did get to sit in a jet trainer because I had a lot of people
behind me to get me into flight school in this town but sitting there it
occurred to me that this is absolutely not what I want it's it isn't movies
it's for real these you know this little red button on a joystick controls guns
with real bullets and I'm sick I said that for quite a while and knew that if
I made a strafing run and needed a camera here and I needed the people to
be able to get up and go back to number one so I got out of that plane on the
runway at North Island Air Station a Naval Air Station and I walked away from
that and towards acting I knew that it was all about the movies it was all
about the movies their little horn Tooting I can do for myself is merely
having the courage to keep going
back in the hall there young people young actors struggling we because I go
along with it want to assure them that it's best to keep going don't don't give
up I tell kids it's the surest way to lose is to quit and in this business
it's really difficult because there were so many talented people out there
scrambling to get through that first Dewar that being able to get there and
do it is stroke of a lot of things including luck well as I said I went to
the movies all the time I've seen the movies and at some point it struck me
rather dramatically how much I wasn't in the movies would you give purely in an
acting sense to yourself 30 40 years ago same advice I gave myself 30 to 40 years
old
Act there are unfortunately those of us who say well I want to be a star
that's way out there in the ether somewhere I want to be a working actor
you can pull that off so act work work I someone asked me and watts and you were
about to do it what would you do if you weren't an act if you didn't make it as
an actor what would you do I have no idea I would act somewhere maybe I'd be
driving a cab maybe I'm working somebody's yard whatever I'm doing I'm
going to belong to somebody's little theater group
I will act because I'll die if I don't I
auditioned I don't think I even got to audition I interviewed for the movie the
thing the remake so I read the script and I go back for the audition and the
producer or the director one was said did you inscribe that say yes what do
you think I said well you've got 11 people at the South Pole eight of the
scientists and then you have a cook a mechanic and something else
they're all black none of the scientists are what do you think I think neat let's
just add and get that job the other night that covers me black as the pit
from pole to pole I learned it when I was in school you know did you believe
yeah I think whatever God there may be from my unconquerable soul
the fell collective circumstance I have not cried aloud under the bludgeonings
of fate my head is bloody but unbowed beyond this place of Wrath and tears
looms but the shadow of the shade yet the Menace of the year's finds and
shall find me unafraid matters not how Strait the gate how punishment charged
the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain
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