An actor's guide to real life | Timothy Deenihan | TEDxQuinnipiacU

[@namad3238]

This is the BEST TEDx talk I ever heard!!! He managed to talk about everything while sticking to the subject and it Really gives pearls (beware of the intro😂). It's like "the wise one" who's always present in books, and it's mindblowing

[@jennystevens9056]

Timothy Deenihan is my Cousin from my Late Mum's Side (R.I.P) & i very Much Enjoyed Watching Him & He Make's Sense in what He has to Say! From Michael James Steven Gleeson.

[@arefghadimi1882]

Get him to accept me as his student..

[@vikasbharat9277]

Stop learning your lines ....Start learning your .. CHARACTER ..

[@suzisavvedge9749]

Seriously. That was extremely inspiring.

[@SavolX]

Awesome talk. Came here for the advice on acting, got words of wisdom that reminded of what Joe Dispenza and Jordan Peterson say.

[@romedominus]

Excellent. Lucid. Thank you.

[@markporter702]

BRILLIANT.

[@suzisavvedge9749]

This is brilliant!! 👌

[@desmond1489]

This was amazing

[@melanienguyen2890]

i actually learned for watching this... why we, as an adult, think react and feel. i guess i have to be oitside the box.

[@robertulloa9570]

Outside the box?

[@cjmunn4360]

Loved it, Tim! We watch a lot of TED talks and really enjoyed this. I still want to know what happened to those electrons though. I'm still at the WHY? stage of life. ;o) xx

[@Dakers1987]

Good old Dr Roebuck in Brookside.

[@Truebrotha]

My childlike brain made me drift off and zone out while he was in the middle of his 6 hour long anecdote/analogy/example lol 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@Zohan369]

That's some of the best acting I've seen 🔥🔥 pun intended hahaa Very inspirational to say the least

[@John10lfc]

Remember him in Brookside Completely different accent now

[@emzt5289]

So is he American or British? I’m so confused 😂

[@John10lfc]

@@emzt5289 British originally 😂. It’s so weird listening to him now

[@malifwar]

Awesome advice...

[@mescellaneous]

what an analogy..

[@mescellaneous]

unfortunately, film and theatre are not as predictable as timothy makes it seem. to put it this way, direction is indefinable maybe, but the structure of space is still structure. same for movies, the idea of the movie is predictable. the purpose of the film is not random. you will be a very bad actor if you play a drama as a comedy, or you can be a genius for having a new perspective. the point is that you most certainly have to define and actors do that as well to an extent, even if their work starts with questioning the possibility of the character. my point is he is teaching you something you already know. you've just forgotten to question again. i believe his story of the children was most useful, but then again there will be a psychologist out there who watches this video and find that bit wrong and trivial. that this whole talk is possibly a mapping to his constant exposure to questioning and of little value. to take this one step further, its not answers that are taken for granted, but existence. the very existence of the world is so indefinably true that we've given up questioning it because no answer would suffice. and that's certainly why we need to map, saying this hopefully so someone wont freak out about how they've never seriously questioned their life. if we dont map, we'd be like a newborn or an acid trip. we'd cry and freak out.

[@theworkbenchbar]

Miscellaneous Hi misc. Some terrific thoughts and challenges to the talk. To be sure, mapping is essential to life. We need to rule out some possibilities if we're ever going to make our way in the world. Imagine standing in the cereal aisle and trying to weigh which is the best cereal for you at that specific moment in time - what taste are you after, what nutritional content would be most beneficial to the specific day you have planned, and then attempt to consider the variables that might effect that. Impossible. We'd be there for hours. This way madness lies. The point I'd like people to leave the talk with is that we rely WAY too heavily on the maps we create. A map need not be THE definitive route, only one route which we recognize. Others exist and are worth exploring, fear be damned. As for your suggestion that "you will be a very bad actor if you play a drama as a comedy," I could not disagree with you more. Yes, some people like predictability. The Transformers saga and McDonald's have both made millions giving people exactly what they think they want. But the performances that genuinely MOVE people are the performances and films and plays - and books and songs and poems and pictures - that take you to an unexpected place. They find humour in tragedy, and straight painful drama that is - for some brutally human reason - funny to watch. And I believe those moments are found by artists when they approach a work openly without preconceived notions of what the outcome and effect are meant to be, but bare themselves for an audience to join in the exploration. Anyway, thanks for watching. Thanks for thinking. Thanks for thinking out loud.

[@rajsingh2125]

Timothy Deenihan hi. great video.... ive always had this feeling that I should be in acting........grew up wanting to be. how do I know if it is the right path + how hard is it to become successful?

[@theworkbenchbar]

Raj Singh Raj, cruel as it may sound, there is absolutely nothing I can do to tell you if it's the right path. And - frankly - if you have to ask, it probably is not. It is an astonishingly brutal career path on both you and everyone whom you love and who loves you. You cannot want to do it. You need to need to do it. As for success - that's measured by a different stick for every person. I wish you all the very best at finding your success and achieving it, whatever it may be.

[@saigotakamoto6377]

if you have the feeling to be in Acting then go for it! you don't need to seek permission from other people first to do something you feel is right, now you have yo be aware its a very very hard profession and very competitive and it involves countless rejection but you have to have the mindset and the will that the rejection is not about your ability, a majority of the time (95%) its about you appearance and if you suit the role.

[@X7XrAiNX7X]

That’s Ralph nadars nephew

[@SalvadorOlagueOfficial]

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