It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.
At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
I think nothing's better than lots of water and a good night's sleep to rejuvenate yourself.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
When you get older, you start to doubt, and you put limitations on yourself. But little Teyonah had no fear.
I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.
When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.
When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.
You should be comfortable eating by yourself or in public.
But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.
It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.
I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.
