生命已经这么短，为什么还不追求自己真正想要的

生命已经这么短，为什么还不追求自己真正想要的呢？
艾美奖最&佳男演员PeterDinklage重返母校时的励志演讲：不要像我一样，29岁才开始，如果你怀揣梦想，就尽早去实现它，不要害怕改变，不要害怕失败，心中有光，素履以往。
1969年6月11日，彼特·丁拉基出生于美国新泽西州莫里森，拥有德国和爱尔兰血统。他一出生就罹患软骨发育不全症，使得身高只有1.35米。从六七岁开始 ，彼特·丁拉基就和他的哥哥在地下室一起演木偶剧给家人看。在他阴郁的高中生活中，戏剧成了他的避风港。彼特从高中毕业后便立志做一名演员，他随后进入佛蒙特州的本宁顿学院Bennington College表演系学习，不过在大学期间他就开始参与剧本创作，毕业后因为身高的原因，他为了维持生计，曾在一家画廊挂油画，在一家钢琴店给钢琴掸了五个月的灰，也曾在一位研究莎士比亚的学者家中除草。
最后，Peter 在一家数据处理公司当起了数据输入员，每天对着电脑输入数据，日复一日，一直干了六年。在干这份工作期间，他和同事相处愉快，一起抽烟喝酒一起分享八卦，这令工作时间看上去也没有那么乏味。
但他总觉得有哪里不对劲儿，因为这不是他喜欢的工作，只是一份为了生计、为了交房租而不得不从事的工作。
于是，29岁那年，他毅然决然地辞掉了数据输入员的工作，转而去做了演员。尽管一开始内心充满了对改变的恐惧，初入演艺圈的低薪资，还有周围人嘲笑的声音，他都坚持住了，因为这是他一直想做的事情。后来经过各种磨难和机缘，他饰演了美剧《冰与火之歌：权力的游戏》中小恶魔提利昂·兰尼斯特一角，并凭借剧中的表演获得第63届艾美奖剧情类最佳男配角奖与第69届金球奖剧情类最佳男配角奖。
生命已经这么短，为什么还不追求自己真正想要的呢？​

Are you scared change?

你害怕改变吗？

Ever tried, Ever failed.
屡战屡败。
No matter, try again, fail again, fail better.
屡败屡战。纵然失败，更加出彩。
I had so many dream,
我有太多梦想，
of where I wanted to go,
想游历何方，
who I wanted to be
想成为何人，
and what I wanted to do.
想做什么。
You have your own story to tell.
你有自己的故事要讲述。

Theater companies I wanted to start with classmates.
我想与同学合开的剧团。
Movies I wanted to be in, directors I wanted to work with, stories I needed to tell.
想参演的电影，想合作的导演，想表达的故事。
I packed the life that I knew with socks and toothbrush into my backpack.
我把过去熟悉的生活与袜子牙刷一起，打包进了我的行囊。
And I slept on couch, after couch, after couch, after couch, at friend’s apartment in New York.
在纽约，我睡了一张沙发又一张沙发，或者住在朋友的公寓里。
Until I wore out the rent paying roommates’ welcome.
直到我透支了那些需要付房租的室友的好意。

I didn’t want a day job.
我不想做全职工作。
I was an actor. I was a writer.
我是一名演员，我是一个作家。
I had to get a day job.
但我不得不找一份全职工作。
I dusted pianos at a piano store on Whitelow Street for five months.
我在惠特沃街的一家钢琴店给钢琴掸了五个月的灰。
I worked on the property of a Shakespeare scholar for a year,
我在一名莎士比亚学者家里工作了一年，
pulling weeds and removing bees’ nests.
给他除草、除蜂窝。
I went on unemployment once,
也曾尝试过不工作，
but for not for long, I couldn’t handle the guilt.
但持续不了多久，内心愧疚让我重拾工作。
Eventually I was able to pay rent for a spot on the floor of an apartment on the Lower East side.
终于，我能够支付在下东区的一个公寓底层的租金。
But my roommate had a break down and disappeared.
我的室友精神崩溃，消失了。
I helped hanging paintings at galleries,
我曾在画廊帮忙挂画，
paintings that inspire inspire you to think I could do that.
那些激励你想"我也能成事"的那种画。
And then finally, after two years of job and couch surfing, I got a job, in application processing.
后来终于，经历两年换工作和换沙发，我找到了一个工作，处理应用程序
As a data enterer, at a place called Professional Examination Services.
作为一个数据输入员，在一个称为专业考试服务的地方。
And I stayed for six years, six years.
我在那里干了六年。六年！
From the age of 23 to 29, well they loved me there, I was funny.
从23岁直到29岁，他们很喜欢我，我很搞笑。
I smoked in the loading docks with the guys from the mailroom,
在装卸区，我和收发室的同事抽烟，
and we shared how hungover we all were.
分享我们都曾如何宿醉的经历。
I called in sick almost every Friday
我几乎每个星期五都打电话请病假，
because I was that late the night before,
因为前一天晚上混到很晚，
I hated that job and I clung to that job.
我讨厌那份工作，但又不得不做
Because of that job I could afford my own place.
它让我得以支付房租。

My dream of running a theater company with my friend and fellow Bennington Graduate, Ian Bell had died.
我和我的朋友，一起从本宁顿毕业的同学，伊恩贝尔一同运营一家剧团的梦想破灭了。
I had only the one window.
我只有一个窗户。
I myself could not look out the window.
我自己看不到窗外。
It was, it was quite high. No acting agent.
它挺高的。我也没有经纪人。
When I was 29, I told myself the next acting job I get no matter what it pays,
当我29岁时我告诉自己，无论下份工作薪水如何，
I will from now on for better or worse, be a working actor.
我将从现在起，做一个职业演员。
But something good happened.
但是好事发生了，
I got a low-paying theater job in a play called Imperfect love,
我在一个叫《不完美的爱》的剧中得到了一个微不足道的小角色，
which led to a film called 13 moons with the same writer,
这让我获得了同一个编剧所编电影《13个月亮》的演出机会，
which led to other roles, which led to other roles,
因此也获得了一个又一个的角色，
and I’ve worked as an actor ever since.
从此展开演员生涯。

I didn’t know that would happen.
但当时我不知道会发生什么。
At 29, walking away from Data processing, I was terrified.
29岁，我离开了数据处理，我很害怕。
Ten years in a place without heat,
十年住在一个没有暖气的地方，
six years of a job I felt stuck in.
六年被困在一个工作里。
Maybe I was afraid of change. Are you?
或许我恐惧改变。你呢？
But this made me very hungry, literally.
但这让我吃不饱，真的吃不饱。
I couldn’t be lazy. I couldn’t be.
我不能偷懒。我不能。

And so at 29, in a very long last,
所以29岁时，很长一段时间，
I was in the company of the actors, writers and directors,
在演员、编剧和导演的陪伴下,
I’d sought out that first year,
我开始了第一年的生活，
that first day after school.
毕业后第一天真正的人生。
I was. I am by their sides.
我曾经，我现在依旧在他们身旁。

Raise the rest of your life to meet you.
让你的余生，随心而行。
Don’t search for defining moments,
不要去寻找决定性时刻，
because they will never come.
因为它们永远不会到来。
The moments that define you have already happened,
决定你的时刻已经发生，
and they will already happen again.
也会再次发生。
And it passes so quickly.
稍纵即逝。
So please bring each other along with you.
所以请与友同行。

You just get a bit derailed.
你只是有点迷失。
But soon something starts to happen.
但很快就会出现契机。
Trust me. A rhythm sets in.
相信我，你会找到轨道。
Just try not to wait until like me, you’re 29 before you find it.
不要像我一样，等到29岁找到它。
And if you are, that’s fine too,
如果你真等到那时候，也行，
Some of us never find it.
有些人一辈子都没有找到它。
But you will, I promise you, you are already here.
但你会找到的，我保证。你已经在这里了。
You’ll find your rhythm,
你会找到你的轨道，
or continue the one you have already found.
或者在你已经找到的道路上继续前进。
Don’t wait until they tell you you are ready.
不要等到他们告诉你，你准备好了。
Get in there, sing.
自己上场，歌唱。
The world might say you are not allowed to yet.
世界可能会告诉你 你还不行。
I waited a long time out the world before I gave myself permission to fail.
在认输之前，我等了这个世界很久。
Please, don’t even bother asking.
恳请各位，甚至不用特地去问。
Don’t bother telling the world you are ready.
不用特地告诉世界你准备好了。
Show it. Do it.
展现自己，证明自己！

What did Beckett say?
贝克特说了什么？
"Ever tried, ever failed.
屡战屡败。
No matter. Try again.
屡败屡战。
Fail again. Fail better. "
纵然失败，更加出彩。

We burn very brightly. Please don’t ever stop .
我们燃烧得如此耀眼，请不要停止。
The World is yours.
世界是你的。
Treat everyone kindly and light up the night.
善待每个人，然后照亮夜晚。

Maybe I was afraid of change, are you?
也许我是害怕改变，你呢？