Zitat des Tages über Beginnen Sie zu glauben / Start Believing:
If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!
Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.
Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.
If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they're going to start believing you. And then at some point, they're going to start questioning you and say, 'Why, if it's so bad, are you doing it?'
When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.