Disappointment Is the Key to Career Success with Keke Palmer
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How did Keke Palmer's career start with disappointment?
So I remember when I did A Kill and the Bee, everybody kept saying, this movie is going to be a hit. This movie is going to bust it out. You're going to be a star. And it's such an elusive thing because what's a star?
You know what I mean? And how old were you then? I was 11. And they were like, this is huge.
And I'm like, wow, this is huge.
Really, whatever that is.
I guess I'll be Michael Jackson now. You know, it was like huge. And then the movie came in and did so terrible in the box office. Mm-hmm.
Although that was one of my favorite movies.
And then the funny thing about it is, like, over time, it grew to be my most popular film. And the thing that people most know me for, but I use that as an example in this, is because our life is made up of many moments. It's not made, like, our legacy is not just that one thing we did. It's the many, you know, it's the many things that we did. And so, like, A Killing to Be was always there for people to come to and remember my work. And it grew over time amongst all the things I did.
Mm-hmm.
But I remember feeling in that moment being like, everybody lied to me. You know what I mean? I felt like when my mom told me I was going to be a big girl at five, I still didn't get big. I was like, now, wait a minute. I'm still shorter than y'all.
It sounds like big girl just means I can't be a baby. Exactly.
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Well, hello.
Hi, Craig.
How are you?
I'm great. How are you? Welcome back to my world.
Even though I didn't stay at your place last night.
You got a lot of nerve coming into D.C. and you didn't even stay with me.
I know.
Because you all trying to be Airbnb friendly.
Let me tell you. I would normally stay with my sister, but this time I stayed at a really nice place.
Okay.
And I was going to go for a walk this morning, but I was so excited about our guest today that I was preparing all morning long. And we're going to be talking about dreams. And, you know, it made me think of when we were little, did you have a dream? Did you know what you wanted to do?
I thought I did when I would be asked. Probably around the age of 10, I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician.
I remember. You remember that? Oh, yeah. I was wondering if you remember because I thought you were going to say lawyer or something. I was going to say not.
No, no, no.
But yes, you wanted to be a pediatrician.
Lawyer didn't come until after I realized that I was not talented at chemistry or math. You know, that's what you can be at 10. You can dream. That's like being a doctor is all about loving children and wanting to help because I love kids. I love little kids. And I thought, well, if I could do something that was professional and I could save lives. And then I went to high school and chemistry kind of threw me for I didn't like science or math.
So the problem with chemistry. few in science is you didn't like it because you were a good student in every subject.
I could get grades. But if I thought, if I'm going to pick a career where I have to do math and science for like eight years, it's like, nah, I'll do something else. But that was my dream. What about you?
So I'm going to see if you remember this. The first thing I wanted to be wasn't an athlete, wasn't a coach. Well, kind of an athlete, but it was a race car driver. Do you remember that?
It was like race car. I was going to say pilot.
No, no. It wasn't pilot because folks weren't on planes like that back then. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to be a NASCAR or IndyCar driver.
That's why you love Formula One so much.
It is. But do you remember how I got talked out of it by Mrs. Thompson, my second grade teacher?
No, what did she say?
So... It was one of those days in school where you have to, she's like, all right, I want everybody to stand up and say what you want to be when you grow up. And people were like standing up saying they wanted to be a teacher and they wanted to be a fireman and they wanted to be a policeman. She gets to me and I said, I want to be a race car driver. And she was like, Craig Robinson.
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