Stay Interesting, Jonathan Goldsmith
Stay Interesting, Jonathan Goldsmith
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Stay Interesting
I Don't Always Tell Stories About My Life, but When I Do They're True and Amazing

Author: Jonathan Goldsmith

Narrator: Jonathan Goldsmith

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/13/2017


Synopsis

What makes a life truly interesting? Is it the people you meet? The risks you take? The adventures you remember?

Jonathan Goldsmith has many answers to that question. For years he was a struggling actor in New York and Los Angeles, with experiences that included competing for roles with Dustin Hoffman, getting shot by John Wayne, drinking with Tennessee Williams, and sailing the high seas with Fernando Lamas, never mind romancing many lovely ladies along the way.

However, it wasn’t all fun and games for Jonathan. Frustrated with his career, he left Hollywood for other adventures in business and life. But then, a fascinating opportunity came his way—a chance to star in a new campaign for Dos Equis beer. A role he was sure he wasn’t right for, but he gave it a shot all the same. Which led to the role that would bring him the success that had so long eluded him—that of “The Most Interesting Man in the World.”

A memoir told through a series of adventures and the lessons he’s learned and wants to pass on, Stay Interesting is a truly daring and bold tale, and a manifesto about taking chances, not giving up, making courageous choices, and living a truly adventurous, and always interesting life.

About The Author

Jonathan Goldsmith grew up in the Bronx, trained in theater in New York City, then moved to Los Angeles. After decades in Hollywood and many adventures, he moved to a farm in Vermont, where he now lives with his wife and two dogs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry on August 13, 2018

Who? Jonathan Goldsmith? You’ve never heard of him? Then why would you want to read his memoir? I hadn’t heard of him, either. But I bought his book because I recognized the man on the cover, sitting on a posh couch, a drink in one hand, a cigar in the other . . . the spokesman for Dos Equis beer. It was......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on July 07, 2017

When you run across a story such as this, you wonder which of the three possibilities are the reality: A) Being cast as the world's most interesting man in the Dos Equis commercials became a self-fulfilling prophecy, or B) The man who played the world's most interesting man really did lead an intere......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 09, 2018

I don't always list to audiobooks, but when I do, I want them to be interesting.... Goldsmith delivers this (and narrates it himself) with a frank telling of his sexual exploits rising to the gigolo level -- garbage man and gigolo -- a real rags to something tale. His long list of credited and non-cr......more

Goodreads review by R. on October 13, 2018

Who is Jonathan Goldsmith? Juvenile delinquent, son, bohemian, fisherman, archer, sometimes-lover of most of the women in Hollywood, entrepreneur, adventurer, mountain climber, rescuer of dogs, gigolo, john, cowboy, a dead bad guy in something you've seen at some point, hobo hopping trains, homeless......more

Goodreads review by Ginger on February 18, 2022

For a book with the word "interesting" in the title, this was a little boring. There were moments of interest, and that's what kept me listening, but overall, I wish I'd put it down. For an anecdotes from an actor memoir, read Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself instead.......more