- Me
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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
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're getting on plans and traveling all over the place, it can be very hard to keep yourself healthy and avoid catching a cold.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just happy to be doing what I always wanted to do. Sometimes you have to remind yourself how privileged you are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing about the stage to be afraid of; there's nothing about the cameras to be afraid of. You just have to be yourself.
- Map
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020