Peter Dinklage | This is Why Only 1% SUCCEED and What 99% Are Not DOING

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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 Dinklage

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0:00.0	Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
0:17.0	I had so many dreams of where I wanted to go, who I wanted to be, and what I wanted to do.
0:25.0	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.
0:37.0	It might take a little time, I thought, but it would happen.
0:46.0	What I didn't have was cash, a bank account, a credit card.
0:55.0	Credit card or an apartment. I just had debt. A big, hungry, growing larger every moment debt.
1:09.0	I 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
1:25.0	and I wore out their rent paying roommates welcome.
1:33.0	I dusted pianos at a piano store on Leadlow Street for five months. I worked on the property of a Shakespeare scholar for a year pulling weeds and removing businesses.
1:45.0	I went on unemployment once, but for not for long I couldn't handle the guilt.
1:52.0	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.
2:07.0	And then, finally, after two years of job and couch surfing, I got a job.
2:22.0	An application processing as a data enterer at a place called Professional Examination Services.
2:34.0	And I stayed for six years, six years from the age of 23 to 29.
2:45.0	Well, they loved me there. I was funny. I wore black no-cape, no tights.
2:52.0	I smoked in the loading docks with the guys from the mail room and we shared how hungover we all were.
3:00.0	I called and sick almost every Friday because I was out late the night before. I hated that job and I clung to that job.
3:08.0	Because of that job, I could afford my own place.
3:21.0	My dream of running a feeder company with my friend and fellow Bennington graduate Ian Bell had died.
3:27.0	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.
3:45.0	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.
4:02.0	And I've worked as an actor ever since.
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