Yourself Quotes

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.