- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.
- Grieving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baking is more like chemistry, following certain instructions and knowing what comes out in the end. It's almost reassuring! Songwriting is a creative process where you go into a session with nothing and can come out of it with something incredible in the end. I never feel like I'm taking a risk with baking, but always with songwriting.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, it's not the labels buying the music: it's the people out there, and you have to be behind the music and not anyone else. You're the one representing it, you're playing it for everyone; you're doing promotion and travelling around the world.
- Emotional Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.
- Creative Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020