Dan Levy
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Podcast Appearances
And then the more you talk, the more you speak.
And then the more you speak, the more you're aware of yourself speaking.
And then by the end of it,
I was so kind of embarrassed of the level of exposure that I had that it's almost permanently scarred my relationship to like myself in a way.
A lot of the therapy that I'm doing is like, no, you're not embarrassing.
Was there a moment that really stuck with you?
No, it's not a moment, but you can see it happen.
Like someone goes from like making something that's cool, that catches on, then there's the like photo shoot cycle where suddenly it's like a million photo shoots and now we're whatever.
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.