Jimi Hendrix Quotes
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
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On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.
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I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
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It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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I found myself in too much of a box situation.
