- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yourself Quotes
The hardest audience is yourself.
These quotes turn inward — an actor describing the fear that comes before any audience does, and thoughts on the quiet value of lowering the noise and simply listening more closely. For more on inner confidence, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Editing Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be willing to totally immerse yourself in China in order to have in-depth exposure to China.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is, when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, you get into this business to make money and to make a name for yourself. And the fact that you're on the indies for 15 years is not a badge of honor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020