Riz Ahmed
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1,209 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Riz Ahmed’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're aware of those things, possibly as facts, but your internal experience of it
Does it really land like that?
Or does it feel like a series of
mistakes that went right moments of hubris that went wrong a journey that's constantly unfolding that you're not quite in control of and in many ways like you don't stop to like breathe it but maybe you I mean I'm sure you stop to breathe all the time so you stop to kind of in you know kind of really have check out that perspective but when you're saying um these things about kind of living the dream or whatever I guess I don't see it like that I feel very grateful for my journey um
And maybe the reason why I don't see it like that is I've realized that all these kind of external markers of achievement, they don't really land.
They don't really land in the way you think they will.
The award...
the round of applause, these fleeting moments, these moments of kind of these dopamine hits, those moments of the little kid dancing in front of the aunties, being handed another cup of Coca-Cola in a round of applause.
Those moments, they feel nice.
They feel good, but they're very fleeting.
They don't nourish you on a soul level, those external things.
I think what we're searching for as artists, as storytellers, as actors, but really any of us is a sense of flow.
You know that moment when you forget yourself?
It's that feeling when you're not literally self-conscious.
And you talk about this so much, right?
And there's this feeling of connection to all things and all people.
And every now and again, in a fleeting moment, whether you're lost in a jigsaw puzzle you love or a video game or on stage performing or in a conversation, playing with your kid, you forget yourself.
And that's the thing I'm chasing.
It's trying to live in that as much as possible, both in my art and in my life.
I want to try and just find a way of just living as close as possible to that pocket rather than these milestones and these trophies and these things of achievement.
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