- Impressionist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In retrospect, I never thought of myself as conceited - I never even wore makeup or styled my hair until I was an adult - but having Bell's Palsy made me hyper-aware of the way I looked. I became completely depressed, never wanting to get out of bed or even answer the phone.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been kind of quite porky and happy at boarding school and not self-conscious at all; then, suddenly, I found myself in auditions being examined, and it made me angry.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always hate it when I hear actors talking about the process of what they do, so I'll keep my thoughts to myself.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020