Don't strive to be famous, strive to be talented | Maisie Williams | TEDxManchester

Maisie is an actress, an entrepreneur, and an activist. Yet to this day, she has no formal qualifications to her name. Her career has been built upon a symphony of seemingly normal opportunities that evolved into extraordinary, life changing events.

Maisie tells the story of working on what ended up becoming the biggest television show of all time from the age of 12. She discusses why she thinks right now is the perfect time to build tools for communities and how her platform, daisie, will redefine creative collaboration.

Margaret Constance Williams, known as Maisie Williams, is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut in 2011 as Arya Stark of Winterfell in the HBO world phenomenon Game of Thrones. Selected among 300 British actresses, she plays the role of a tomboyish young girl from a noble family for which she won numerous awards.

Her broad artistic life led her to co-found Daisie, a social media aimed at creative people in the world of arts, fashion, tv, film, photography, music, and literature. The aim of the app is to bring individuals from across industries together, to help foster collaborations with other artists and provide an alternative route into creative industries. Maisie said “Our main goal is to have a community of artists that are collaborating, uploading their work and sharing their projects.. helping others create their careers.”

[Renuar]

To speak so convincingly in front of a dead crowd requires humongous talent. She proved it.

[mayaalsir]

"talent will carry you further than your 15 minutes of fame" i felt that.

[katie]

guys i was there and the audience was really loud but they had to cover it up because you wouldnt be able to hear maise :)

[ishasingh]

"Don't strive to be famous, strive to be talented"
Tiktokers are punching the air rn

[ledajustiniani]

I was so focused on her speech that I didn´t even mind the audience as everyone is saying. We need to stop seen the negative aspects on everything. It was a great speech and I enjoyed it!

[larissaaraujo]

the moment she says "game of thrones" and pauses for room for aplause and not a sound is heard was so uncomfortable, it truly feels like everyone there lives under a cave and never heard of jokes and tv shows.

[stephenw]

I can see the age gap between the speaker and the audience. Few got her jokes.

[Rawshynn]

"my second audition was for a show called Game of Thrones..". You can really hear it in her voice cracking a bit and her taking a break not to cry was really emotional. Sweet girl. You made it! :)

[InushaAshwan]

Maisie, what a beautiful & inspiring soul with a dead audience

[themegahertz]

I guess her audience were the dead army of the night king.

[RiverDogRun]

No wonder she got the part for Arya Stark. She's courageous, charismatic, and creative.

[fruff]

Whoever is thinking about scrolling through the comments don't bother. 95% of the comments are about how the audience is "dead". I guess people were paying more attention to the audience than her speech.

[AttyTatty]

This crowd was a bit flat, didn’t get her humour but she’s beautiful and inspiring 😊

[Matthew-]

The audience was tough!!! No laughs at her jokes, no applause for her roles, mean!!!

[robertjacob]

Aside from the fact that the audience was dead. Her speech was very beautiful and inspirational and that's what's most important here.
When I watched this I was inspired get back up every time I fell down.

Kudos to Maisie!

[ToTheStoryverse]

"I was the icing on top of a terrible marriage." Such English humor 😂😂

[lillynuval]

Amazing speech. Wrong audience. Huge age gap probably. You go, girl! 😊👊

[SilverHawk]

Never watched GoT but I just googled this lovely person and I just found out she's exactly my age, to the day. She has accomplished so much, surely I can do the same.

[madhusarda]

I loved the way she says "Opportunity or Challenge". These 3 words explains a lot...

[Tarlev]

I like the fact that shes nervous, despite of her being famous with a great career.. That shows being human to me :)