[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Perspective]] - People: [[Christopher Lee]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHrSDjDd5bA --- ## Summary - Always learn. [[Don't chase fame and fortune. Chase knowledge.]] - Do not place your entire value of self on publicity. Do not have ego. - Adapt. Learn. Grow. Aspire to have qualities like instinct, imagination, and invention. - Failure to grow shortens your "lifespan". ## Notes - Christopher spent a lot of his time learning; Something that few young actors (these days) are doing. - When these actors are on screen, they are looking into a mirror; their hands are reaching out, out of shot. Because they want riches. They want to immediately be rich and famous. - "[[The most dangerous thing a young actor or actress can do is believe in their own publicity]]." - If you've got it (instinct, imagination, invention, experience, versatility), you will go on. - If you always play the same part, and that's all you can do, you will be through. - The moment the public realizes and tires of the sameness, it signals the beginning of the end. ## See also - [[Knowledge as an extension of self]] - [[All knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge]] - [[Self-expression]]