Yourself Quotes

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.