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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.
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Here's the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it - even on a show like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm': the more personal you are, the wider your audience.
- Nov 07, 2020
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, I'm not working out the way I was when I was playing. I do yoga. I swim a lot. I'm drinking a lot of good, healthy mixes. I got myself a Vitamix.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.
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- Nov 07, 2020