- 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.
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you're not confident in yourself, to see someone who doesn't care - and I don't care anymore. I really don't care - it gives you that confidence.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're not hiding anything, it's just very easy to be yourself - shockingly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020