Terry Crews
Appearances
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
hand-drawn animation went out the window because Toy Story came out right so all of a sudden they were giving me my portfolio back like that don't work and then I got a chance to act and the rest is history I did not know that that was my destiny I just love his story first of all I had no idea before this interview on Club Shay Shay that his real dream was to get into animation
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
I said, we are never leaving. I don't care if it happens when we're 99 years old, we are never leaving LA. I promise you this. I said, if we just continue to do this, because this is where I had kind of learned the mistakes I had made in football. Okay. And I didn't have another chance on football.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
You tell yourself you've been doing what you should be doing. But then you eat the cake and you hang out and you do that and you stay up too late and you don't go to bed and you totally mess your stuff up. You show up late for the job interview and then be like, they didn't want me. They hated me. No, no, you showed up late, bro. And I totally had to be honest with myself, man.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
Start marking off things that I wasn't doing.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
imagine, what if, I'm sweeping this floor, man. You gotta understand, I'm almost in tears while I'm sweeping this floor because I'm going, dude, my life may never, ever get back to where I started. Because once you're in the NFL, you at least see it. You see the money. You see the stuff. You're like, man, I'm there. I can touch it. You see the nice cars and the jewelry.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
Oh, you see the cars pulling out the lot. You see the jewelry. You see the people living the life and the press. And then all of a sudden, but it's gone. And it's gone.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
And I said, man, look, OK, imagine if someone was going to give me a million dollars to sweep this floor. How would you sweep it? And these are the little bitty mindsets that, and I remember I was like, okay, okay. I have to imagine I'm going to get a million dollars if I sweep this floor correct. Because I had to play these kind of games with my head in order to get over the depression.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
And I remember sweeping and sweeping and sweeping. And all of a sudden, I forgot about my problems.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
But what I said is, what if someone gave me a million dollars to wash this parking lot? I could make sure I had my batteries and my flashlight, I ironed my clothes. It was a mindset that I said, I'm going to reverse that bad attitude I had in the league that didn't get me where I wanted. I said, now every job I have to treat like that. And what's so crazy is that
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
I started to do everything like that. Right. It created a habit in me that kept me going. So it didn't really matter what people said. I felt like I was getting this imaginary reward if I just did a great job.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are
What I have to say is these things are what I call incremental. It's not one big, giant thing. For me, it was always one little message, one little thing. And, you know, also when I moved out here, I started trying to get my thing on animation because I was like, I'm an artist, so I can show you my portfolio. And I had my portfolio in at Disney, at DreamWorks, at Hanna-Barbera, all this stuff.