- Each Man
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any competitive environment, whether you're in sales or marketing or whatever it is, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them and then you have to know yourself - who you are and what you're capable of doing.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belief is so important in everything. You need to believe in magic. You need to believe in yourself. You need to believe in your family.
- Planned
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020