Myself Quotes
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
