- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to keep working hard, pushing yourself, and, by scoring goals, you get the reward.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?
- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
- Grandiose
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- Nov 07, 2020