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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself. A lot of what happens in the industry is that you are cast based on other things that people have seen you do, or how you are perceived to look or sound. If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more challenges that are thrown at you, the more reward there is on the other side because you surprise yourself and say, 'Wow, these are things I didn't realize I was capable of.'
- Nov 07, 2020
At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020