Yourself Quotes
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You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.
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First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.
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They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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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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Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
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I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.
