Yourself Quotes
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
