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Ashton Kutchers Motivational Speech – Teen Choice Awards HIGHLIGHTS – HARDWORK


00:00:06I feel like a fraud my name is actually

00:00:11not even Aston Aston is my middle name

00:00:16my first name’s Chris

00:00:20it always has been it got changed I was

00:00:22like 19 and I became an actor but there

00:00:25was some really amazing things that I

00:00:27learned when I was Chris and I wanted to

00:00:29share those things with you guys because

00:00:31I think it’s helped me be here today so

00:00:34it’s really three things the first thing

00:00:36is about opportunity the second thing is

00:00:39about being sexy and the third thing is

00:00:42about living life so first opportunity I

00:00:45believe that opportunity looks a lot

00:00:49like hard work when I was 39 my first

00:00:53job with my dad caring singles up to the

00:00:55world and then I got a job washing

00:00:58dishes at a restaurant and then I got a

00:01:01job in a grocery store jelly and then I

00:01:04got a job in a factory sweeping cheerio

00:01:06dust off the ground and I’ve never had a

00:01:09job in my life but I was better than I

00:01:13was always just lucky to have a job and

00:01:16every job I had was a stepping stone to

00:01:18my next job and I never quit my job

00:01:20until I have my next job and so

00:01:24opportunities look a lot like work

00:01:30number two

00:01:32being sexy the sexiest thing in the

00:01:36entire world is being really smart and

00:01:41being thoughtful and being general

00:01:46everything else is crap I promise you

00:01:50it’s just crap that people try to sell

00:01:53me you to make you feel like less so

00:01:56don’t find it be thoughtful and be

00:01:59generous

00:02:00the third thing is something that I just

00:02:02relearning when I was making this movie

00:02:04about Steve Jobs

00:02:05and Steve Jobs said when you grow up you

00:02:09tend to get told that the world

00:02:11to do and the girl’s life is submit your

00:02:15life inside the world try not to get too

00:02:18much trouble and maybe sit in education

00:02:21to get a job and make some money and

00:02:23have a family then life can be a lot

00:02:26broader than that when you realize one

00:02:27simple thing and that is that everything

00:02:30around us that we call life was made up

00:02:35by people that are no smarter than you

00:02:37and you can build your own things you

00:02:41can build your own life that other

00:02:43people can live in so build a life don’t

00:02:47live one build one