Dax Shepard

What's the thing?

The word I dislike the most is assume.

Anytime someone says it, what follows it is sort of like, so what you're saying is you didn't ask.

You didn't go to the source.

You came up with a narrative for yourself about a person.

And by the way, there are people that have narratives about me that are completely based on nothing.

She's smiling there.

That's what a lot of our society is doing right now, which is why I think it looks the way it does.

We assume things about each other rather than having that moment of like talking to each other and really hearing each other.

Because even like what you just said, I try to be an active listener.

That's why I was like, I heard a couple of things.

I was like, okay, I want to address the activist thing.

I was like, that's really interesting to me.

It's not combative, but it's sort of like, oh, that's interesting thing.

No, it's not at all.

But to me, it's like, I get what you mean.

It doesn't seem like an odd thing at all, what you said.

But I think for me, it's helpful to hear and to kind of go, okay, I see how the work can be perceived that way.

And because I have no control over how people perceive the work.

But I think for me as an artist, it's always about, okay, that's how it can be seen.