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Natalie Portman Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard Commencement 2015

Harvard University · 4,001,512 بازدید · اضافه شده 4 روز پیش

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00:00

[APPLAUSE]

00:03

NATALIE PORTMAN: Hello, class of 2015.

00:06

I am so honored to be here today.

00:09

Dean Khurana, faculty, parents, and, most especially,

00:14

graduating students, thank you so much for inviting me.

00:19

The senior class committee-- it's

00:21

genuinely one of the most exciting things

00:23

I've ever been asked to do.

00:26

I have to admit primarily, because I can't deny it--

00:30

as it was leaked in the Wikileaks release of the Sony

00:33

hack--

00:33

that when I was invited, I replied.

00:36

And I directly quote my own email.

00:38

"Wow, this is so nice.

00:40

I'm going to need some funny ghostwriters.

00:43

Any ideas?"

00:43

[LAUGHTER]

00:44

This initial response, now blessedly public,

00:48

was from the knowledge that at my class day,

00:51

we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrell as Class Day

00:53

speaker, and that many of us, hungover or even freshly high,

00:58

mainly wanted to laugh.

01:01

So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation,

01:06

I'm still insecure about my own worthiness.

01:09

I have to remind myself today, you are here for a reason.

01:13

Today, I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard yard

01:16

as a freshman in 1999, when you guys were, to my continued shock

01:21

and horror, still in kindergarten.

01:24

I felt like there had been some mistake,

01:26

that I wasn't smart enough to be in this company,

01:29

and that every time I opened my mouth,

01:31

I would have to prove I wasn't just a dumb actress.

01:34

So I start with an apology.

01:36

This won't be very funny.

01:38

I'm not a comedian, and I didn't get a ghostwriter.

01:41

But I am here to tell you today, Harvard

01:44

is giving you all diplomas tomorrow.

01:47

You are here for a reason.

01:49

Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience

01:53

may lead you to embrace other people's expectations,

01:57

standards, or values.

01:58

But you can harness that inexperience

02:01

to carve out your own path, one that

02:03

is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be,

02:07

a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.

02:11

The other day, I went to an amusement park

02:14

with my soon-to-be four-year-old son.

02:16

And I watched him play arcade games.

02:18

He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target.

02:22

Jewish mother that I am, I skipped 20 steps

02:25

and was already imagining him as a Major League player with,

02:28

what, his aim, and his arm, and his concentration.

02:32

But then I realized that when he won,

02:35

he was playing to trade in his tickets

02:37

for the crappy plastic toys.

02:39

The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it.

02:43

I, of course, wanted to urge him to take joy

02:46

in the challenge of the game, the improvement of practice,

02:49

the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling

02:53

the accomplishment when achieving the game's goals.

02:55

But all of these aspects were shaded by the little $0.10

02:59

plastic men with sticky, stretchy blue arms that adhere

03:01

to the walls.

03:02

That was the prize.

03:05

In a child's nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies.

03:09

I saw myself in him, and perhaps you do too.

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Prizes serve as false idols everywhere-- prestige, wealth,

03:18

fame, power.

03:19

You will be exposed to many of these, if not all.

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Of course, part of why I was invited to come speak today,

03:26

beyond my being a proud alum, is that I've

03:29

accrued some very coveted toys in my life,

03:32

including a not-so-plastic, not-so-crappy one, an Oscar.

03:36

So we bump up against a common trope,

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I think, of the commencement address,

03:41

people who have achieved a lot, telling you

03:43

that the fruits of achievement are not always to be trusted.

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But I think that contradiction can be reconciled

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and is, in fact, instructive.

03:51

Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it.

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And when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap.

03:57

I went to a public high school on Long Island--

04:00

Syosset High School.

04:02

[CHEERING]

04:02

Ooh, hello, Syosset.

04:05

The girls I went to school with had Prada bags

04:08

and flat-ironed hair.

04:09

And they spoke with an accent I, who had moved there at age nine

04:12

from Connecticut, mimicked to fit in--

04:15

Florida oranges, chocolate cherries.

04:19

Since I'm ancient and the internet was just

04:21

starting when I was in high school,

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