I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
I'll say it's not easy to keep yourself between 100 and 112 pounds every day of every month of the year. Especially for women. I'm a woman; once a month I retain water and I crave chocolate and sugar. Those are the toughest days.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
The frustrations and joys of parenthood are just hard to understand until you have a kid... the constant fight you're having with yourself, like loving being with your kid but also being kind of bored and wanting to look at your iPhone - it's kind of an interesting thing that's hard to write about before you've experienced it.
Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail.
I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.
You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.
Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.
It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.
If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.
When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
In a relationship, the sum of your parts should equal more than just you by yourself. He needs to bring something new and different to the table to up the ante.
