What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive.
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
You have to definitely be yourself in order to stand out.
I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.
The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see it all the time. People get on medication, and they feel better, and they stop taking it. And some flirt with unreality on some levels. But it feels so convincing to them that it feels real.
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
You'll never make a success of yourself when you're doing an impersonation of somebody else.
You have to believe in yourself.
I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.
Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged.
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.
The mind is a funny thing in how it works. Sometimes you have to tell yourself what's really true. If you don't, your mind starts trying to tell you lies.
Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!
