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In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons for doing my work.
在我的職業生活中，我花了許多時間，尋找我自己做事的原因。
The first film I was in came out in 1994.
我的第一部電影在1994年上映。
Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born.
又是一件很嚇人的事，那年你們大部分人才出生。
I was 13 years old upon the film's release and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim.
電影出來時我才13歲，至今我仍能一字不差的復述《紐約時報》對我的評價。
Ms Portman poses better than she acts.
波特曼小姐擺造型的功力比演戲強很多。
The film had universally tepid critic response and went on to bomb commercially.
這部電影得到的所有評價都是不溫不火，而商業方面則是慘敗。
That film was called The Professional, or Leon in Europe.
這部電影叫做《這個殺手不太冷》。
And today, 20 years and 35 films later,
而到今天，過了20年，拍完了35部電影之后，
it is still the film people approach me about the most to tell me how much they loved it,
它仍是人們見到我時最常提到的片子，他們告訴我多愛這部片子，
how much they moved them, how it's their favorite movie.
這片子多感人，說這是他們最愛的電影。
I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.
我感到很幸運，我首次參演的電影，起初在所有的標準和衡量上來看都是一場災難。
I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making film and the possibility of connecting with individuals
我很早就學到，我的價值應該來自于電影拍攝過程的體驗，來自觸碰人心的可能，
rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical success.
而不是我們行業最首要的榮譽：商業和影評方面的成功。
And also these initial reactions could be false predictors of your work's ultimate legacy,
而且，最初的反響可能會錯誤預測了你的作品最終的價值，
I started choosing only jobs that I'm passionate about and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.
于是我開始只挑那些我熱愛的事情來做，只選那些我知道能汲取到有意義經驗的工作。
This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers, and audiences alike.
這讓我周圍的所有人都徹底困惑，經紀人、制片人、還有觀眾都是如此。
I made Gotya's Ghost, a foreign independent film
我拍了外國獨立電影《戈雅之靈》，
and study our history visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition.
為此我學習藝術史，連續四個月我每天研讀戈雅和西班牙裁判所。
I made for Vendetta, studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters
我拍了動作片《V字仇殺隊》，為此我學習了所有自由戰士相關的東西，
whom otherwise may be called terrorists, from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground.
他們也被叫做恐怖主義者，從Menachem Begin的書到Weather Underground組織。
I made Your Highness, a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.
我和丹尼·麥克布萊德拍了大麻喜劇《王子殿下》，我連續笑了整整三個月。
I was able to own my meaning ant not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.
我可以決定我自己的價值，而不是讓票房或名聲來決定。
