Short excerpt from a YouTube video in which Vernon Davis explains his commitment to acting: he has worked with an acting coach for five years, trains twice weekly (Tuesdays and Thursdays), reads scripts and studies Shakespeare, and intends to keep a coach even if he wins an Oscar—drawing the habit of disciplined practice from his football career.
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You know, a lot of people don't know the level of commitment. You know, I've had an acting coach for five years. We work every Tuesday and Thursday. We work, we, we either reading scripts or we study in Shakespeare. We doing something, we just working, right? So what that does, over time, it just, it creates something in you. You know what I mean? So if I'm, if I'm, if I'm where I'm at right now in five years, imagine where I'm gonna be at in 10 years, right? I'm gonna be extremely good because I'm doing something that most people don't even do. Even people who are great don't even have a coach at this stuff, Right? But why, but that's what I'm saying. Like some, some people understand the essence of. For me, I feel like if I'm going do something, I'm going put my whole heart into it, and I'm always have everything. I'm going go above and beyond. I'm having things that most people don't even think of, right? Even if I, I, I can win an Oscar, I'm still gonna have an acting coach. I don't, I don't care. I don't, I don't care. That's just how I work. That's, that's something I learned from football.