Myself Quotes
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.
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A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
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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 hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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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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Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
