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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.
- Nov 07, 2020
As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a strong support system, you have the freedom to express yourself in whatever capacity you can.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you represent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.
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- Nov 07, 2020