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Now in the Hollywood version of my story what would happen is there'd be about three minutes where I would move to Chicago
在我的故事的好萊塢版本中 有大約三分鐘時間 關于我搬到芝加哥
And I would suffer mightily probably at night or in the rain There would be music in the background and I would come home at night
然后我在夜色下 風雨中 遭受了巨大的挫折 背景音樂甚為凄慘 我深夜回到住所
To a dog in a giant loft that I could somehow miraculously afford
家里有條狗 而我住在巨大的閣樓之中 真不知道當時我哪有錢買這個
And fall asleep And after those three minutes, I would be discovered by a director
然后睡覺 這三分鐘后 我被一個導演發現
Who would cast me to film and I'd walk down the red carpet and my parents would be across the red carpet giving me the thumbs up
他讓我去拍電影 然后我走上紅地毯 而我的父母在紅地毯的另一邊 對我豎起大拇指
In the real world story of what happened when I decided to make a big bet on myself and
而真實世界的故事中 我當時之所以決定賭上我的人生
Take the chance to do this because it's what I loved
決定干這一行 是因為我愛它
I was grinding away for a long time and I had no money and we would rehearse during the day
我努力了很長時間 一直窮困潦倒 我們需要在白天排練
And perform to these little theaters at night for free And I was taking classes during the day at Second City as well
然后晚上免費到小劇院表演 白天我還在第二城市接受課程培訓
Trying to learn improvisation and I eventually had to get odd jobs because I had no money
學習即興表演 最終因為沒錢 我必須找一些奇怪的工作
So I put my CS degree from Michigan to use wrapping flatware and selling place settings in Crate & Barrel
我將我在密歇根獲得的計算機科學學位 用于在Crate&Barrel包裝和銷售餐具
But while I kept on improvising in Chicago for many years I want to tell you two lessons I learned in that very first year there
但我在芝加哥從事即興表演的很多年中 我第一年就學到了兩點 和大家分享一下
Learning at Second City The first one was
這是在第二城市學到的 第一點是
We had this director at Second City who was instructing a class I was in named Don Depollo
有一位導演在第二城市中的一門課上教過我 他叫唐.德波洛
