University of Wisconsin - Madison Spring Commencement true Kohl Center true May 17, and 18 2003.Thank you Chancellor Wiley distinguished party friends, platform, guests and, the very reason for our presence here today. The members - of the class of 2003.Before I start my remarks I ", d like everyone just to do something for me. Very simply - so everyone can kind of just get. To know everyone else - on the count of three I ", d like everyone to turn around and shake the hand of the person sitting. Right behind you. One two three,, -,, right now everybody please do that.So I guess, you still have a few things to learn.My parents cried when I left for California. Not because I was leaving, (but), think because rather I, they were afraid. I "d be coming back. Not one teacher I ever had in grade school high school, or college would" ve believed that there was. Even the slightest chance that one day I would be asked to give the commencement address at a major university.University of Wisconsin - Madison Spring Commencement true Kohl Center true May 17, and 18 2003.Thank you Chancellor Wiley distinguished party friends, platform, guests and, the very reason for our presence here today. The members - of the class of 2003.Before I start my remarks I ", d like everyone just to do something for me. Very simply - so everyone can kind of just get. To know everyone else - on the count of three I ", d like everyone to turn around and shake the hand of the person sitting. Right behind you. One two three,, -,, right now everybody please do that.So I guess, you still have a few things to learn.My parents cried when I left for California. Not because I was leaving, (but), think because rather I, they were afraid. I "d be coming back. Not one teacher I ever had in grade school high school, or college would" ve believed that there was. Even the slightest chance that one day I would be asked to give the commencement address at a major university.Many given the, opportunity would ", ve bet large sums of money against it putting up, their homes and children as, collateral. Actually I really, like the idea of that not because, I "m vindictive - although in a few minutes I" m going to read the names. Of all the people in my life who never thought I would amount to anything - but because life should be unpredictable. And. I "m very grateful that I never wasted any time trying to become somebody else" s image of what I should be.So thirty-one years, ago today I drove, from Madison Wisconsin to Los Angeles,,,, California. On the way I passed Camp. Randall where my, college graduation ceremony was in progress. I thought about going to, the ceremony but it meant I would ve. " Arrived in Hollywood one day later and at, the time I just didn "t see the point. I wanted to get there.Gertrude Stein once said about Hollywood, "When you, get there there is no "there" there." That "s true. However there,, Will be a swimming pool and tennis court. In, the end though it ", s probably not enough to justify a life s journey. Getting." There particularly in, show business is tough, enough. You need a combination of talent ambition luck and a willingness,,, To tell actors how beautiful they look today.In retrospect getting there, was the easy part. Finding a "there." there is much harder. So today before you, get into your. Cars and race off to the rest of, your lives I want to give you some advice on how to get there. And I want to help make. Sure that when you get there you find, a "there there."To that end I will, give you my five rules to, think about quickly forget but years, from now kick yourself for not having. Listened to.# 1. Don "t think about your future especially right, now. You" ll miss my speech. There will be plenty of time to contemplate. Your future right after the ceremony but then, you "ll miss all the celebrating and adulation. So just wait until you get. Home and have a good think about something that will happen in the future that will make you happy.When I graduated, from college I spent a lot of time thinking about how cool it would be to be on the Johnny Carson, show. A few, years later it happened. We appeared on the "Tonight", show Joey Bishop was the guest host. We were dreadful. For. Years I ran into people who would stop me and say, "Hey I saw, you on the" Tonight. "Show. Huh... What "s Joey Bishop like?" Eventually I got over the embarrassment but I, never got those years back - years I spent waiting for some future event. To make me happy. I had tricked myself into thinking, "As soon as I get there I ", ll be OK."I work in a business where almost everyone is waiting for the next big thing. Sometimes it comes and sometimes, it doesn "t.? But it doesn "t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. So get out there and go, for it but. Don "t be caught waiting. It" s great to plan for your future. Just don ", t live there because really nothing ever.
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