Yourself Quotes
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Life is a search for yourself.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
