Yourself Quotes
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You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.
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Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.
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I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
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There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.
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Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.
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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
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Above all have respect for yourself.
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I would define success as setting a goal for yourself and then accomplishing it. I think successful people set out to do something and then just do it. They know before they accomplish their goal that they will, in fact, accomplish it.
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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
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Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
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If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.
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When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
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No one can keep you down except yourself.
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It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.
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You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.
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It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.
