He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.
You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.
All life is a statue of yourself, so be the best artist to make the statue the most beautiful.
If you don't place yourself where you could fail, you'd never have a place from where you'd succeed.
When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'
Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.
You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.