I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing.

Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of

living. Now I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and

picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life I'm sure people applying to on, honey. But I never understood that concept, having something to fall back on. If I'm

going to fall, I don't want to fall back on anything except my faith. I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way I'll see what I'm going to hit.

Fall forward.

This is what I mean.

Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career the most in the history of baseball but you don't hear about the

strikeouts people remember the home runs for forward

Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments.

Did you know that? I didn't know that.

Because the 1,001st was the light bulb. Fall forward.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

You've got to take risks and I'm sure you've probably heard that before, but I want to talk to you about why that's so important

First you will fail at some point in your life except it you will lose you will embarrass yourself you will suck at something

there's no doubt about it and I know that's probably not a traditional message for a

graduation ceremony but hey I'm telling you embrace it because it's

inevitable and I should know in the acting business you fail all the time early on in my

career I audition for a part in a

Broadway musical perfect role for me I thought except for the fact that I can't sing

so I'm in the wings I'm about to go on stage but the guy in

front of me he's singing like like like Pavarotti he's just

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