- Courtney
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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
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
- Nov 07, 2020
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.
- Confine
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020