I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'
If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the daily decisions you have to make, it's time to automate something.
You have to believe in yourself.
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.
My grandmother is still a woman who worries about what she looks like when she goes outside. She's from that era, and I can remember saying to her, 'Grandmother, we're just going to the grocery store.' And she'd be like, 'I've got to fix my face!' You were very aware of how you were presenting yourself to society in 1960s Las Vegas.
As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really love themselves.
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
