And it’s not about quantity.
It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.
I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done.
That the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to and of course, to ourselves.
In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons for doing my work.
The first film I was in came out in 1994.
Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born.
I was 13 years old upon the film’s release and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim “Ms Portman poses better than she acts.”
The film had universally tepid critic response and went on to bomb commercially.
That film was called The Professional, or Leon in Europe.