- 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
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly storytelling - repeating poisonous stories that you've inherited from others. It feeds on your fear.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important for young audiences to see that you don't have to apologize for being angry when you're angry, and you don't have to apologize for standing up for yourself when people are pushing you around.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you surround yourself with really good energy, really good people, you almost don't even think about your body as anything but something to nourish yourself and keep you running.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
- Big Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020