- Myself
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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
- Greatest Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot sit at home at act. You need a story, a director, you need people to believe in you, to put you through that journey. It is not something you can attain within yourself.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
- Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
- Familiarity Breeds
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- Nov 07, 2020