I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.
The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon
When you judge you are limiting yourself, you are limiting your reach.
Go fuck yourself," I replied, always the lady. "I'm staying here.
Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.
... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.
Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?
If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.
The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.
You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world
Tell me about yourself.' A strange thing for a husband to ask a wife.
Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.
You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.
