- Me
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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 Aug 01, 2026
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
- Nov 07, 2020
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020