We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.
I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.
I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
I did feel that a part of my work was to empty myself out and let it move through me.
I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.
I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.
You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.
I actually have a little routine I do before every shoot. I put a face mask on before bed and make sure I go to sleep early. Then, I get up early and make myself breakfast and get in a workout.
One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.
I might not agree with myself in a year.
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.
I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?'
At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.
I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.
I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.
I can live with myself.
One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.
