- 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
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how holy and righteous you are, you're still gonna have to kiss up to the billionaire for the check to get yourself elected to change the laws. Even if you're Bernie Sanders.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following your heart and working really, really hard is the best thing you can do, and just try not to be too hard on yourself.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.
- High Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020