Yourself Quotes
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Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
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There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
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It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.
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Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
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Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.
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If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
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No one can keep you down but yourself.
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You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.
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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
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There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.
