As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.
That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.
Dr. Albert Hirsch: [to David Webb] Will you commit yourself to this program?
You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.
You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you.
It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.
Sister James: Did you ever prove it? Sister Aloysius Beauvier: To whom? Sister James: Anyone but yourself?
Frank Costello: [to Carmen] Just keep it. Buy yourself some makeup.
Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Mama? Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself.
Bellatrix Lestrange: [to Griphook] Liar! Consider yourself lucky, goblin.
The Blue Fairy: Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.
