Miranda Otto Quotes

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

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• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Yourself

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Important
  • Service
  • Yourself

• Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Acting

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Snow
  • Be Yourself

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Support

• Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Crazy
  • Acting
  • Industry

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Change
  • Yourself
  • Paths

• I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Black
  • Acting
  • New York

• Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Way
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Yourself
  • Selfish
  • Camera

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• I'm the fastest thing on two feet.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Thing
  • Two Feet

• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Simple
  • New

• I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Happy
  • Films
  • Liking

• Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Acting
  • Yourself
  • Careers