Peter Dinklage, aka Tyrion Lannister from ‘Game of Thrones,’ needs no introduction. The Emmy Award-winning actor redefined the art of character acting. Every role he ever played left a mark on the hearts of the audience. And the only reason he has been able to achieve this much love and success in his life is because of his never-give-up attitude. At an age when people run after money, forget their dreams and passion in the search for stability, he decided to listen to his heart. While addressing the batch of 2012 Bennington College, he said, “Raise the rest of your life to meet you. Don’t search for defining moments…”
Quote of the day by Peter Dinklage
“Raise the rest of your life to meet you. Don’t search for defining moments…” said the 91st alumnus of Bennington College, as he delivered the year’s Commencement address. He added, “because they will never come. The moments that define you have already happened, and they will already happen again.”His words gave a powerful message of self-trust. The actor highlighted how it is important to have faith in one’s own self and not look for those small magical moments that others talk about. The magic you are looking for resides inside of you. All you need is to look for it inside of yourself, feel it, embrace it, and never let anyone, or anything, make you believe otherwise. The best person you will ever meet, the person whose expectations should matter to you the most, should be your own. On this note, let’s repeat his quote once again, “Raise the rest of your life to meet you. Don’t search for defining moments.”
Peter Dinklage – The man who quit his job at the age of 29 to be an actor
Peter Dinklage was 29 years old when he decided to be a working actor. During the same motivation speak, he shared, “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. So I quit my position at the professional examination services, and now I don’t have either the internet, a cell phone, or a job.”However, things changed for him, and it changed with “a low-paying theater job in a play called ‘Imperfect Love.’After the play, he got a role in ’13 Moons’ with the same writer, and then things started falling in the right place. He was being offered one acting job after another. “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,” he revealed.Further stressing over his point, the actor quoted Samuel Beckett and said, “Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
