- People
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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
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.
- Advice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn how to humble yourself, and be able to take advice and not feel like you know everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
- Underwater
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're underwater with goggles on, a couple of your senses are taken away, and it becomes this purely visual thing. It's just you and yourself.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you build your own chair, there is a lot of things that happen. You could probably buy a nice chair for less money than a chair that you built yourself, and it might even look better, but if you build that chair, you're going to take care of it and maintain it because it's your chair. If it breaks, you know how to fix it.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020