Myself Quotes
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.
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I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
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I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, 'Cover or not?' Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I'm just like 'Primetime or not?' If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days!
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I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
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I'm totally myself.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.
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I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
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I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
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Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.
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I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.