◆ One night, when #LaurenceOlivier was playing #Othello, he gave what must have been an electrifying performance. Even he was startled by it. And the audience would not stop applauding. #MaggieSmith, who was playing #Desdemona, was also stunned. When the #curtain was rung down for the last time, instead of going to her own dressing room she went to his. She found him sitting there alone in the #dark.
" #Larry " she asked him. "How did you do it ?"
"I dont know" he said. "I don't know."
Interestingly, short after giving this momentous performance Olivier went into a #horrible #artistic #funk. He was convinced he knew nothing about acting.
He was afraid everytime he went out on stage that a moment would come in the performance when he would have to step down to the footlights, beg the #audience's #forgiveness and ask that the curtain be brought down because he would not be able to remember his lines or not be able to perform.
#That_never_happened_but_for_years_the_possibility_that_it_might_happen_haunted_him. Many years afterward he described this crisis in an interview.
◆ In 1889, a young Indian lawyer froze during his first case before a judge and ran from the courtroom in humiliation.
“My head was reeling and I felt as though the whole court was doing likewise,”
the lawyer would write later, after he had become known as #MahatmaGandhi .
“I could think of no question to ask.”
Another time, when Gandhi stood up to read remarks he had prepared for a small gathering of a local vegetarian society, he found that he could not speak.
“My vision became blurred and I trembled, though the speech hardly covered a sheet of foolscap,”
he recounted.
What Gandhi called “the awful strain of public speaking” prevented him for years from speaking up even at friendly dinner parties, and nearly deterred him from developing into the spiritual leader he ultimately became.
◆ " I was eight years old when I watched a woman die unattended on the corridor of AIIMS. I still remember her child crying, I remember myself crying," #ShilpiMarwaha
#An_artist_should_feel_fortunate_to_have_a_fall_on_stage. It happens with great people only, you get that fall to jump high.
#Fortunate #GreatFall #PickYourselfUp #Confidence #JumpHigh
(Facebook post by "Hitesh Aggarwal")
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