Myself Quotes
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For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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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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No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.
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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I always feel that I compete with myself.
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
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I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
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Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.
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I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.
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I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
