Dan Levy
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Then you go through like a cycle of talking about your work.
And when you talk about your work and people pedestalize your work, then you start to talk about the like...
how profound your work is, which you've never thought about before.
Then you start to talk about, okay, well, like, I guess I am doing something important.
And then when the dust settles of all of it, you're like, what a clown.
I, I think I walked away from when the Emmys happened and we, we want, I mean, I said it in my Emmy speech, which breaks my heart.
I actually said when I won my last Emmy of the night, can't believe that's a sentence.
I think I said, I apologized.
Because I was so aware that this was the moment when people were going to say, okay, they have too much.
And I was aware of it in real time.
And it's one of the big heartbreaks was the fact that culture or the way that we respond to people's success can sometimes be vicious after a certain point.
It's like you see it with people.
It's like we lift them up, we lift them up, we lift them up, we lift them up.
And then at some point, there's a tipping point where the media decides, okay, they've had enough.
Why do you think that is?
Because you can't, the balloon can't stay afloat forever.