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- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Marine Corps, I was used to people doing what they said and saying what they mean. There was a higher purpose and calling in the Corps. Everyone works toward accomplishing something together, and there's a common goal. In entertainment, the same isn't always true. You're in it for yourself in Hollywood.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, everybody wanted to do something. How can I help? Do you want my blood? Do you want money for the victims? I was a captain in the Marine Corps. I knew what I could do. I was right there. I was ready. I saw it. I moved the rubble with my own hands.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about 'Express Yourself,' and she's turned Madonna's fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, 'Born This Way.'
- Chaplin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a record is an intimate experience. A good producer can get things out of you that you can't get out of yourself.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going for the joke on 'Children's Hospital,' and we're going for the joke on 'The League.' It's fun to go between shows, but you have to mentally remind yourself what show you're on.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to evolve and reinvent yourself, you will need to observe people and explore a lot.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You are approaching the truth, but the image is never the truth itself.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020