- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in a park, and someone can take your life away. To have two children, two black boys, you ask yourself a lot of questions about how do I protect my family. Is there anything I can actually do?
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
- Nov 07, 2020
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
To excel at the highest level - or any level, really - you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.
- Wait
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
- Sexy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020