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Sean Hayes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
18427 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

Did you think about, did you think about, through that process, did you think, oh, maybe this is an area that I want to go into?

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

Did you consider doing that yourself?

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

Well, I always think acting is a little bit in that area.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

Sorry, that question was for Amanda.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

And then we create, and then that, create that narrative, and those sort of neural pathways get deeper and deeper and deeper, those grooves, and if you're, the danger is that if you don't do that, I'm not advocating either way or whatever, I don't have really a position, but that if you, that those things get so deep that that becomes your story entrenched in your mind about who you are, I am this, this is the way, and you can, that can often lead to, I think, as you get older...

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

You know, I know I speak for myself.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

The story that I've been telling myself about who I am for the longest time has become this thing that I'm like now at this age, almost 56, and going like, wait, I got to look at that.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

Because I've had this narrative, and I'm not a reliable narrator on this.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

I just think that we all have, first of all, everybody has their own sort of chemical makeup.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

And so you can have two people, like you were saying, you and your sister, you can have two people who grew up in the same environment with the same parents with the same thing.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

And they're completely different.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

We see it in our own kids.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

I certainly see it in mine.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

And they react differently to stuff.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

And it's true in my experience that I've grown up and I do things differently.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

And I'm only now at this age started to go like, wait a second, all the stuff that I thought, like I didn't do that early on.

SmartLess
"Amanda Peet"

I didn't go to psychoanalysis when I was young.