-Goddamn it, Andrew!
If you're going to succeed at this thing...
-What thing?
-This...this thing you're trying to do...
You've got to stop being so damn deferential.
-I can't help being deferential. It's built-in.
-Then change.
-Change? I have changed.
-I don't mean on the outside. Change on the inside.
Take chances, make mistakes.
-Mistakes?
-Yes! Sometimes it's important not to be perfect, okay?
It's important to do the wrong thing!
-Do the wrong thing?
-Yes.
-Why? Oh I see. To learn from your mistakes.
-No. To make them!
To find out what's real and what's not, to find out what you feel.
Human beings are terrible messes, Andrew.
-I'll grant you that. I see.
This is what is known as an irrational conversation, isn't it?
-No, this is a human conversation.
It's not about being rational. It's about following your heart.
-And that's what I should do?
-Yes. And you have a heart, Andrew. You do.
I feel it. I don't even believe it sometimes, but I do feel it.
-And in order to follow that heart... one must do the wrong thing.
-Yes.
-Thank you.
《Bicentennial man》
